Power & Light

As the summer music season kicks off in Kansas City, live music options abound — but how to choose? KCUR’s list of the month’s most creative acts will help clarify the decision.

The 2023 men’s and women’s Big 12 basketball championships are getting underway at Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center and Municipal Auditorium, respectively. This week's tournament will bring plenty of great games, a lot of disruptions to downtown traffic patterns, and one Shaquille O’Neal.

In neighborhoods like Power & Light and the Crossroads, where stunt driving and car sideshows have become a nuisance, city crews are installing small black discs that are meant to disrupt the movement of sliding or skidding tires.

Following a string of mass shootings, many Kansas City residents said they’re nervous to go out in public, especially to crowded entertainment districts like Westport or Power & Light.

The decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a “blow” to the family of Ryan Stokes, 24, who was shot in the back while complying with police in 2013 after a foot chase in the Power & Light District.

The Big 12 Basketball Championships tip off Wednesday. For fans in Kansas City, the events will be as close to 'normal' as they've had in more than two years.

With warmer weather and COVID restrictions easing, KC Streetcar has added an extra hour to its evening schedules to accommodate the increased ridership.

The vehicle theft hotspots are the city’s entertainment districts, and the number taken in Westport is “staggering,” police say.

Liberty-based B&B Theatres will open a new location at the site of the former Alamo Drafthouse in the Kansas City Power & Light District.

The prospect of a baseball stadium downtown has long tantalized downtown boosters, and with the Royals’ change of ownership last year, the idea seems to have picked up momentum.

Although expected since April, the move marks a new era in one of downtown’s largest attractions.

A Kansas City Police officer was using “reasonable” deadly force when he shot and killed 24-year-old Ryan Stokes, despite the fact that Stokes was unarmed…