North Kansas City

Missouri health officials announced that more vaccines will be available this month for long-term care residents and "forward facing" health care workers, meaning those who interact with patients.

Recall organizers hoped to oust Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas over his coronavirus response and stance on social justice protests. They failed but say they’re not done trying.

An indie movie theater in North Kansas City explores new possibilities to stay in business, including outdoor eating and drinking, and showing films outside.

Springtime anxiety about access to food turned ordinary people into novice homesteaders, yielding a bounty of produce in Kansas City backyards — and a feverish search for online farming instruction.

The food vendors in North Kansas City's Iron District are inside retrofitted shipping containers, and diners eat outside. Outdoor dining combined with a business model that emphasizes low startup costs might help the food hall thrive in the pandemic economy.

More than 40 languages are spoken in North Kansas City. The new mural on the wall of an immigration law firm reflects the global perspectives of students at North Kansas City High.

With input from the community, area educators are looking for safe ways to carry out the upcoming school year. Maintaining social distance and other CDC guidelines will complicate the traditional classroom setting.

Kansas City area residents respond to a renewed call to rename the J.C. Nichols Fountain, and the dilemma schools face as the new school year approaches and the pandemic persists.

Voters in Lee's Summit and North Kansas City approved ambitious new building projects Tuesday. And Lee's Summit voters put a woman of color onto a previously all-white school board that's been mired in racial controversy.

COVID-19 postponed April municipal elections to June 2, when North Kansas City and Lee's Summit school districts will ask voters to approve bond measures to renovate old schools and build new ones.

One Kansas City, Kansas, restaurant stopped receiving shipments of fresh meat, but some food distributors are seeing demand surge as major meatpackers have been forced to cut production.

A class action lawsuit charges that Cerner failed to use its immense bargaining power to limit investment expenses for its employee retirement plan.