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Police departments across Kansas are struggling to hire. In Dodge City, that means younger officers walking the beat.

Kansas City attorney Stacy Lake has a plan to do better than the incumbent. That plan focuses on putting county residents first.

There's talk of a possible recession, but Kansas City might fare better than other places due to the major employers it houses.

De Soto, Kansas, will be the home of a new $4 billion Panasonic plant to make batteries for electric cars. Officials promise the plant will create 4,000 new jobs and bring thousands of new residents to the region, but it took a lot of tax incentives to land the deal.

State officials announced that Panasonic Energy chose Kansas for the plant because of its tax rates and taxpayer incentives.

Along one of Kansas City’s most storied avenues, a new mission is taking shape in a 140-year-old stone structure, where Chef Shanita McAfee-Bryant is working to create a new, food-based solution to urban hunger and unemployment.

The COVID-19 pandemic sent everybody but essential employees to work from home. Now some office workers want to continue that model or have a hybrid work schedule leaving empty office spaces.

The rollback of mask mandates and a return to meetings in the office brings back challenges for those who have a weak immune system or a disability.

What was behind millions of us quitting our jobs in 2021 and how that is reshaping America's workforce.

Kansas City Public Schools has regained full accreditation after a decades-long struggle. But while the district is celebrating the news, Superintendent Mark Bedell says they "have a lot of work to do." Plus, workers providing care for people with intellectual anddevelopmental disabilities have been quitting in droves during the pandemic.

Unemployment rates are dropping across Missouri after a pandemic-driven downturn, but some workers are slow to return to the labor force.

Launch Code is bringing Coder Girl to the metro. The program provides training to write computer code and the opportunity for jobs in tech to women only.