Kansas City Fire Department

Three people were killed in December 2021 when Kansas City firefighter Dominic Biscari sped through a red light at Westport Road and Broadway and crashed into an SUV, two pedestrians and a building. Biscari will avoid prison as part of a plea deal, but the Kansas City Fire Department said it will seek his termination.

The report was commissioned in 2020 after the Kansas City Star published a year-long investigation exposing discrimination against Black and women firefighters.

Kansas City is welcoming back the Chiefs as Super Bowl champions, and Mayor Quinton Lucas talks through what fans can look forward to during Wednesday's victory parade and rally. Plus: His reaction to a recent report on lasting racism and sexism within the Kansas City Fire Department.

Mayor Quinton Lucas thinks Kansas City needs to do more to address its fire department's culture, one week after a report detailed persistent incidences of racist and sexist harassment within the department.

After a news report revealed persistent issues with racist and sexist harassment at the Kansas City Fire Department, the city ordered an investigation into department conditions. It found problems persist, enabled in part by unions slowing efforts at reform.

Dozens of tenants in a Kansas City apartment building were left without heat and electricity for days, while freezing temperatures took hold of the city. Even after the utilities were restored, residents blame an absentee landlord for the building's poor living conditions.

Residents spent the weekend in the bitter cold at the Gladstone Court Apartments after losing heat Friday morning. By Monday, the landlord was working to turn the gas back on. But many residents said this was the first time they had seen an owner.

A fire knocked out the heat in a Northeast Kansas City apartment complex Friday, leaving residents in the cold indefinitely. The property owner, who serves on the board of a housing advocacy nonprofit, blames the issue on unhoused people breaking into the building. But the building has a history of code violations.

Three people were killed when Kansas City firefighter Dominic Biscari crashed into a car, two pedestrians and a building in Westport more than a year ago. Under a settlement with the city, each of their families receive nearly $500,000 in compensation.

KCFD engine driver Dominic Biscari sped through a red light in Westport at 50 mph, well above the speed limit, and did not brake before colliding with an SUV — killing two passengers and one pedestrian. An arbitrator found that Biscari then “made blatantly false statements” to police investigators.

What is believed to have started as a mulch fire spread to both sides of Interstate 470.

The bar has been a staple of the Westport entertainment district for decades.