Independence Missouri

The city started Monday paying $12 an hour to people experiencing unstable housing to collect litter from some of the city's main thoroughfares. Workers will also get additional money to save toward future housing.

The team's third and final community listening session focused on what eastern Jackson County communities stand to lose if the Kauffman Stadium residents move west.

The Neck neighborhood was in the center of historic Independence, Missouri, and housed the biggest Black community in the city. When the Harry S. Truman Library was built to honor the president, urban renewal policies he put in place destroyed the neighborhood.

The Neck neighborhood was in the center of historic Independence and housed the biggest Black community in the city. When the Harry S. Truman Library was built to honor the president, urban renewal policies he put in place destroyed the neighborhood.

The Independence school board voted in December to adopt a four-day school week starting next school year, leaving some parents concerned and frustrated. But since the change was announced, school officials say teaching applications have increased exponentially.

The state of Missouri will allow cities to tack on an additional sales tax to recreational weed. Many local governments appear ready to put the question to voters, and enjoy a new source of revenue.

John C. Carnes is a former member of the Jackson County Legislature and Independence City Council who served two years in prison after being convicted in 1989 of bank fraud and bribing another council member.

Voters supported a tax increase in 2016 with the promise that the library would open a new branch — but now the library board is questioning how to finance the project.

Parents pushed backed against the Independence School District after it banned a book that includes a non-binary character from its elementary school libraries. Independence's policy is to remove challenged books while they go through a review process.

Two-time incumbent Democratic Representative Robert Sauls has the support of the local union leaders, but increasingly, union members aren’t voting in a bloc. And in a region that's leaning increasingly Republican, the strength of a union endorsement is on the ballot.

You may love burnt ends, but you probably haven’t heard of Henry Perry, Kansas City's original "barbecue king." Plus: How Hiram Young, a former slave, opened the first school for Black children in Independence and became one of the wealthiest persons in the county.

The special investigation examined thousands of hours of overtime incurred by police officers to fix up the city jail.