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Winter storms every few weeks have taken a toll on small businesses, who spend more to deal with snow and lose profits when people stay home.

Shoveling sidewalks after it snows is a tedious task that typically falls to the property owner or resident.

Another round of school closures in the Kansas City area has parents juggling work and child care yet again. Some school district are already considering whether to push back summer break.

Starting Monday night, a new blast of winter weather will see up to 10 inches of snow and wind chills as low as negative-30. The storm will plunge Missouri and Kansas into the freezing cold through Friday.

Human biology thankfully allows us to adapt to major changes in temperature, but only so quickly. Professor Cara Ocobock is working with reindeer herders in subarctic Finland to find out how the human body evolved to withstand the extreme cold over time. What can we learn from communities that have a long history of living and working in the frigid weather?

No lejos de los icónicos gallitos de bádminton (Shuttlecocks) del museo, la nueva y enorme escultura de nieve puede verse en el césped al sur del Museo de Arte Nelson-Atkins. Es la última “colaboración congelada” de exalumnos del Instituto de Arte de Kansas City.

The huge new snow sculpture can be seen on the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, not far from the museum’s iconic “Shuttlecocks.” It’s the latest cold collaboration from former Kansas City Art Institute students.

As sleet and snow began falling, volunteers at Project 1020, Johnson County’s only emergency cold-weather shelter, made sure unhoused residents weren’t caught in the life-threatening cold. Unlike other county organizations, the shelter operated around the clock for several days straight.

The Kansas City region is expected to get between 2-3 inches of snow Thursday night. And after the blizzard already cancelled classes for several days, Kansas City Public Schools already called a weather emergency day Friday, with no classes in person or online.

When a blizzard blanketed snow across the metro, Kansas City Hall and the Missouri Department of Transportation worked around the clock to salt and plow icy roads — with varying success. They may have to do it again soon.

Students across Kansas and Missouri have not been in school since Dec. 21, as road conditions and cold made it too risky to return to classrooms after winter break. They're pitching in to shovel, building snow forts and, in some cases, running out of indoor activities.

Kansas City trash and recycling pickup was canceled for days because of last weekend’s snow and ice. While crews focus on treating roads, here’s the latest on trash pickup.