Kansas City Missouri Health Department

Kansas City’s rental inspection program officially went live on Tuesday, a month after voters approved its creation.Under the new rules, all landlords…

The wait for immunizations at the Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department most afternoons this summer has been two, sometimes three hours – and it’s…

Segment 1: As rates increase among children in Kansas City, lead poisoning remains a persistent concern.It's been decades since companies stopped adding…

Amid a rise in homicides in Kansas City, Missouri, the Violence-Free Kansas City Committee (VFKCC) is urging community members to take a short online…

Kansas City is in the running for a $500,000 prize to make the metro healthier. We were selected due to the efforts of Aim4Peace, a group that seeks to…

Few things compare to the satisfaction of building something with your own hands — making things has always been a fundamental part of what humans do. The…

Michael Swoyer from the Kansas City Health Department receives a lot of calls from residents with bedbugs.Unfortunately, he says there's not much the city…

Area health officials are cautioning that whooping cough, which notably broke out in Johnson County this past spring, continues to be a problem throughout…

Health officials in Kansas City, Mo. are bracing for the annual back-to-school “rush” of parents and children coming in for needed immunizations before…