Kansas City Star

After 45 years in television and print journalism, Dave Helling has retired. The former political reporter shares how the city has evolved during his tenure.

Teachout, a Missouri native and former critic with the Kansas City Star, has died at the age of 65. He wrote acclaimed biographies of such arts figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and George Balanchine.

After 21 years of covering sports for The Kansas City Star, Mellinger will become vice president of communications for the Royals.

Known for extreme cost-cutting measures, the New York City investment firm moves to acquire Lee Enterprises.

McClatchy Co. accepted a request from newsroom employees to recognize the Kansas City News Guild, which will cover more than 40 employees.

About 40 members of the newsroom at the Star are looking to align with NewsGuild-CWA, the latest additions to a growing union push across media.

The Paycheck Protection Program, designed to help the most vulnerable during the pandemic, fell short in Kansas City.

The Paycheck Protection Program was meant for underserved communities, but in Kansas City its allocation mirrored the city's history of redlining, and the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra performs a new arrangement of Mary Lou Williams' 'Zodiac Suite'.

As Black men continue to die at the hands of law enforcement, Black mothers reveal the dread, the worry, and now the anger they live with every day.

Black mothers talk about the constant fear they have for their children's safety, we bring back a conversation from 2018 and we remember KCUR reporter Aviva Okeson-Haberman, who died Sunday.

The Overland Park Police Department has provided severance for two officers , including one who shot and killed a teenager.

A grand jury subpoena served in Overland Park in November demanded reams of documents and videos connected to the killing of 17-year-old John Albers who was shot by one of the city's police officers in 2018.