Lee's Summit

Segment 1: Municipal leaders discuss the local issues their communities are grappling with, and the current events in Kansas City they're keeping an eye…

Segment 1: Lee's Summit R-7 schools superintendent says achievement gap for some students ranges from 17% to 34%.When Dr. Dennis Carpenter became head of…

It isn't every day three women in their seventies walk into a gun store.Stephanie Nugent is the rookie, a first-time shooter who before today had never…

The Lee’s Summit R-7 school board is considering a plan that moves about 800 of the district’s 18,000 students to different schools next…

Updated at 12:05 p.m. to clarify fundraising totals — Missouri Democrats are hoping to cut into the Republicans’ supermajority in the General Assembly,…

A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder for shooting and killing off-duty Lee's Summit police officer Thomas Orr last year in…

At more than 60 years old, Kansas City’s Buck O’Neil bridge is nearing the end of its useful life. And it’s one of thousands across Missouri that the…

Parents whose kids attend Lee’s Summit schools are growing increasingly frustrated with the school board and superintendent as tensions escalate over…

Is it preferable to build new schools or renovate old ones?Should the priority be to minimize the fiscal impact or minimize student disruption as more…

Missouri taxpayers generally have no say and little information about some 400 tax districts across the state, according to a new report from the state…

Of course, things change. But to truly transform typically takes a plan.Leave it to the weekend to deliver a convenient blueprint for transformational…

We’re all special, right? But some of us are extra special. There I said it.And the weekend is going to back me up with events driven by special people –…