Jackson County

Debbie Bass hopes her story will inspire others to support or become advocates for children in conditions like those she experienced.

Missouri is just one of 47 states considering changes to their voting laws; and a Kansas City woman's story reveals the effect caring adults can have on an abused and neglected child.

Residents from Platte, Jackson, Clay and Cass counties elected public school board members and Kansas City voters overwhelmingly renewed that city's 1% earnings tax.

While much of life was focused on getting through the pandemic, Jackson County was moving forward with plans for the most expensive building project in its history. But will Kansas City join in?

Both the crime scene and Taser data contradicted former deputy Lauren Michael's initial claim that the woman who was resisting arrest had taken the officer's Taser.

The Friday and Saturday vaccination effort is by appointment only.

More than 2,000 people in the Kansas City area died from COVID-19. Area leaders gathered to mark one year since they announced restrictions that would upend life across the metro.

The Kansas City Police officer seen pepper spraying a teenager in a viral Twitter video at last summer's Black Lives Matter Protests has been charged with misdemeanor assault.

Racial data on COVID-19 vaccinations provided to media outlets by Missouri lacked dates or definitions to indicate what the numbers meant.

While some hospitals are beginning to administer vaccines more widely, local health departments say they’re still trying to inoculate health care providers.

Local leaders acknowledged that they were under pressure to loosen restrictions because of other jurisdictions' less restrictive orders.

As Missouri and Kansas move through the phases of their vaccine distribution plans, local counties are allowing residents to sign up to be notified when they're eligible.