Prospect Avenue

Crime around the Linwood Shopping Center is steering customers away from the Sun Fresh grocery store at 31st Street and Prospect Avenue. The store's operators say the city needs to address infrastructure and public safety improvements in the area.

The ProspectUS plan lays out guidelines for the city to invest in the neighborhoods along Prospect Avenue — without displacing neighbors who live there.

Bruce R. Watkins Drive took three decades to build, and resulted in the destruction of 2,000 homes and the displacement of thousands of Black residents. Kansas City officials and longtime residents hope a new federal grant can reconnect the neighborhoods torn apart by Highway 71, but mending old wounds won’t be easy.

After several relocations for their P. Moore & Moore BBQ brand over the past few years, Gary Paul and Patricia Moore landed a new kingdom at 5932 Prospect Ave. And they’ve now fully embraced their nicknames by calling the restaurant The King & Queen of Barbecue.

With over 5,000 reported car thefts in Kansas City this year, frustrated residents are demanding elected officials and law enforcement find solutions. Plus: A $10 million federal grant will be used to improve safety on Prospect Avenue, one of the city's most dangerous roads.

A $10 million federal grant will fund sidewalk and bus stop improvements, curb extensions, lighting and other safety improvements to a 1.86 mile stretch of Prospect Avenue, between Linwood and Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevards

Nearly 200 people died in Kansas City car crashes in 2022 and 2023. The numbers suggest that high speeds and intersections, particularly on Truman Road, pose the greatest danger.

Kansas City’s Central City Economic Development program, started in 2017, is set to be renewed soon — but critics aren't so sure about a program they say has done little.

In June, three people were killed and nine others were injured in an early-morning shooting at a Prospect Avenue auto shop that moonlights as an after-hours club. Even before the shooting, the club was a hotspot for 911 calls and complaints from nearby residents.

Waiting at a stop on Prospect Avenue and 31st Street, Terry Bradford, 71, has bad arthritis in his knees and it is hard for him to walk the couple blocks…

More than 100 people gathered in front of the home of Cameron Lamb on a cold Saturday afternoon, offering remembrances of the 26-year-old man fatally shot…

On a sunny Saturday afternoon — possibly the last warm day of the year — more than 150 people gathered near 21st and Prospect in Kansas City, Missouri, to…