outdoor recreation

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: Kansas City's parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

While most districts spent the last year debating in-person vs. remote learning or going back and forth over masking policies, some schools focused on building classrooms in the great outdoors.

Feeling safe on a bicycle in the Kansas City metro isn't easy, and for Black women in particular, the list of possible negative outcomes can be daunting. But Jassma Thomas is determined to conquer her fears.

The Friends of The Kaw is celebrating 30 years of conservation and preservation of the Kansas River and it takes a lot of work to do it.

What is behind a coalition of Kansas City civil rights leaders asking the Department of Justice to investigate the city's police department, two municipalities that have considered banning conversion therapy, and the work of preserving the Kansas River.

Hazardous and horrific living conditions are behind the renters' decision to organize and as the pandemic increases outdoor activities, birdwatching's popularity is increasing.

As the pandemic increases outdoor activities, birdwatching's popularity is increasing.

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: our parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: Kansas City's parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

The American paddlefish is native to the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The species has been around since the Cretaceous period, some 65 million years. Each spring anglers launch their boats on the Osage River in mid Missouri in pursuit of these big river fish.

Over the course of a long, pandemic winter, we may have gotten awfully cozy with our phones. And yes, I'm talking to the grownups.

Over the course of a long, pandemic winter, we may have gotten awfully cozy with our phones. Now we're trying to figure out how to put them down.