Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council's "Give 5" program hopes to lessen the effects of the "silver tsunami" by giving retirees a way to contribute their time and talents to the nonprofit sector.

Driven by two omicron variants, daily COVID-19 cases in the Kansas City area jumped to an average of 162 at the end of April. That's a higher average than last year at the same time.

New cases and hospitalization in the Kansas City area continue to climb, even as the statewide spike shows signs of slowing.

Transportation, finance and building are some of the elements included in a master plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Details of the proposed Regional Climate Action Plan for the Kansas City area and an examination of why Black history isn't more fully integrated into school curriculum year round.

Nearly a quarter of intensive care units in the Kansas City metro are occupied by COVID-19 patients.

The new guidance, which came out quietly on Wednesday, has stricter thresholds than the gating criteria in use in many school districts across the country.

A reform school in rural Missouri closes after allegations of abuse and neglect, how the local job market is responding to the coronavirus pandemic, one Kansas City university is rolling out a new academic department, and a retrospective analysis of MTV's video content in the 1990s.

The COVID Safe Paths app keeps a log of where a user has been, but privacy experts worry about how that personal information could be used in the future.

Segment 1: Kansas City's transportation stories to watch in 2020A preview of the transportation issues KCUR will be following this year included the…

Kansas City recyclers take heart, for now.Despite reports that some waste companies in the U.S. are burning recycled paper and plastic or sending it to…

Segment 1: A Kansas bill aims to make the state the nation's first to check new-case DNA evidence with connection to closed cases. Currently, biological…