Mid-America Regional Council

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…

Segment 1: How truthful are claims by Kansas gubernatorial candidates?Twelve Kansans remain in the race for governor of the Sunflower State. In recent ads…

Segment 1: Why are educated professionals leaving Kansas City?A recent study showed that more people with college degrees are leaving Kansas City at a…

The latest indicators of Kansas City’s economic growth aren’t bad — they're just ... disappointing.That’s the reaction from the Mid-America Regional…

Think we would all get along better if we lived under one flag – from Olathe to Leavenworth, Liberty to Grandview?Some young Kansas City-metro…

The Mid-America Regional Council, or MARC, releases a Skycast each day with a forecast of ozone air quality. The third orange ozone alert in 2016 for the…

No photos, no emojis, no group messages – the just-launched text-to-911 system can’t handle them.But it can connect to emergency services when it isn’t…

Demographic shifts in the Kansas City metropolitan area tell us the suburbs are becoming more diverse, while downtown has seen an influx of white people.…