Ric Averill

Segment 1: An overhaul of the public transportation system needs input from residents. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and RideKC is…

Lime scooters are out, at least for now, but two new providers will soon deploy their dockless fleets in Kansas City, Missouri.City officials launched a…

The skies across metropolitan Kansas City roared with the flight acrobatics of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels at the annual…

After three months on the job, Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith has laid out a set of changes he would like to make within his department. Most of them…

Today, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the latest data on the state's public schools, so we ask Kansas City Public…

Calling 911 hold times “unacceptable” and citing a need for more patrol officers, Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith asked for an additional $9.3 million…

Major Rick Smith of the Kansas City Police Department and Chief Keith Humphrey of the Norman, Oklahoma, Police Department are the two finalists for the…

In 1961, in the heat of the civil rights movement, black and white college students rode buses through the South to challenge segregated public…

In his 12-year tenure as Kansas City mayor, Dick Berkley met hundreds of celebrities, sports stars, and political figures. Fortunately, he never went…

The mayoral commission looking at how Kansas City should alter its basic operating doctrine hopes to get suggestions from all living ex-mayors, but the…

For more than 35 years, the Lawrence Arts Center has run Summer Youth Theatre, an intensive theater arts program for kids in grades three through 12. This…

On June 6, Cyprus Avenue will feature Richard Thompson at The Folly Theater in Cyprus Avenue Live. This week on the program, we look at Thompson's storied…