Kansas City History

Dig into the bedrock of our region with a look through Kansas City's geological history.

The Kansas City Museum will reopen to the public on Oct. 21, after a $22 million renovation project. The Beaux-Arts style mansion was the scene of a fundraiser last month hosted by the Kansas City Museum Foundation to celebrate its new look.

The first professional baseball team in 62 years to bear the revered name of the winningest franchise from the Negro National League is living up to its namesake's reputation.

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: Kansas City's parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

No Midwestern cookout is complete without a delicious chili or dip simmering in a Crock-Pot. But when the device was first unveiled by a Kansas City company in 1971, it promised something more: freedom.

A trio of Kansas City business owners is transforming 2000 Vine Street for office and retail use.

The 400-pound, 7-foot-tall figure of an Osage Indian woman was stolen from the top of a limestone bluff sometime Tuesday night. When finished, the site will commemorate trade between the French and Native Americans.

It's been 40 years since two elevated walkways crashed onto a dance floor inside the Hyatt Regency hotel, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

LC Richardson started his famous, no-frills barbecue joint in 1986. His granddaughter, Tausha Hammett, worked the cash register before she was tall enough to see over it. Now she's ushering LC's into a new era.

LC Richardson started his famous no-frills barbecue joint in 1986. His granddaughter, Tausha Hammett, worked the cash register before she was tall enough to see over it. Now she's ushering LC's into a new era.

A federal initiative will investigate historic sites of boarding schools for Native American children, but it's unclear how that will affect the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, Kansas.

Accomplished Brig. Gen. Charles McGee made a home in Kansas City after retiring from the Air Force in 1973. He flew fighter jets in three wars, and later managed the downtown airport as a civilian.