preservation

Laugh-O-gram Studios near 30th and Troost served as Walt Disney's first animation house in 1922. After preservationists saved the deteriorating building from collapse, an ambitious $4 million fundraising campaign wants to transform it into a digital storytelling center and teaching hub.

Kansas City’s historic Union Cemetery, founded in 1857, serves as the final resting place for more than 55,000 people, including many early pioneers of Westport. A group of volunteers has cleaned more than 300 grave markers there as a way of learning about and connecting with local history.

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.

Eating "pre-contact" plants and animals the week of Thanksgiving highlights the growing movement for food sovereignty.

What is behind the social media punishment for those who fall out of public opinion favor, and reviving Native American foods and recipes.

Right now, two of the city’s oldest buildings near the 18th and Vine Jazz District look the part: limestone ruins straight out of Medieval Europe.But…

The historic Savoy Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, re-opened Tuesday with a new name: 21c Museum Hotel Kansas City.“We never dreamed that there’d…

Kansas City's long-vacant Luzier Cosmetics Building may soon have a new tenant: The Nelle, an urban social club for women.Although a lease hasn't yet been…

Segment 1: How Jackson County leaders are handling political and personal controversies, and rising crime rates.There's a lot going on in Jackson County…

Kansas volunteers are committed to preserving a national icon: the bald eagle. Today, we speak with the filmmakers of a documentary short about the…

If things had gone differently over the last two decades, the hulking old brick building near the 18th Street exit off of Interstate 70 in Kansas City,…