Liquor

Gov. Mike Parson signed an executive order this month banning intoxicating hemp products and threatening penalties to any establishment with a Missouri liquor license or that sells food products for selling them. Details of how it will be enforced are still being written.

Kansas City's tradition of alcohol production stretches back to the 1800s and through the Pendergast days. These days, you can visit and sample modern distilleries around the metro, whether your taste is for whiskey, gin, vodka or even agave spirits.

The UpDown Nightlife app connects users to bars, clubs and breweries around the metro. In other words, it’s aimed at helping people have a fun night.

Squeeze the most out of the final days of summer with refreshing craft brews and spirits from around the city. Just make sure to stay hydrated.

Once literally the toast of Paris, myths and rumors drove the production of the green spirit absinthe underground.

The Missouri Department of Labor is asking recipients to refund unemployment compensation it mistakenly paid out and the story of how a green liquor paved the way for wine to become the beverage of France.

We hear a lot about the troubling increase of homicides in Kansas City. But fatal crashes are also spiking. More drunk drivers could be to blame.

Known as the "Lawman of the State," Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller was infamous for popping out of trunks, inciting gunfights on buses, and going toe-to-toe with other lawmen and politicians.

School districts and churches in Kansas City, Missouri, will no longer have increased power to keep liquor stores and bars out of neighborhoods.On…

Segment 1: Council rookies relate what the first month on the job has been like.In her first weeks on the Kansas City City Council Andrea Bough realized,…

In February, The Monarch Bar in Kansas City was nominated as a 2019 James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Bar Program. That same month, the…

People who have been convicted of certain felonies will soon have a chance to get a job serving alcohol in Kansas City.The Kansas City Council approved…