St. Joseph

Small museums in St. Joseph, Missouri, preserve the legacies of the Pony Express, Jesse James, even bygone psychiatric treatments. After a year of slow visitor traffic, operators are looking ahead to vaccinations and summer vacations.

In the turbulent years following the Civil War, around 27,000 former slaves migrated to Kansas. They called themselves "exodusters" and they were fleeing Jim Crow laws. Some of them are remembered in a portrait exhibition of an African-American community in Leavenworth, Kansas.

A federal report predicts Missouri will have a shortage of more than 1,200 primary care providers by 2025.

Most cases appear to be connected to the Triumph Foods plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, and the Lansing Correctional Facility.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition to close the Triumph Foods plant for one week.

The posthumous resurgence of interest in Kansas City artist Arthur Kraft, who died in 1977, continues to gain momentum.In the past 20 years, two major…

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Skulls and bones have a lot to say.Among the most basic pieces of information they hold are the gender, age and sometimes cause of death of their former…

Special Olympic gold athlete Lynna Hodgson was two years old when the Hodgson family from outside of Oak Grove, Missouri, adopted her. The baby had been…

Segment 1: How to make compost.Composting is one of those things that sounds easy — but is it? A local farming instructor explains what compost is, how to…

Segment 1: How to run.It's finally spring and that means sunshine, flowers and people jogging outside. We visit with a local coach to find out how to get…

The 11 levees that failed last week during catastrophic flooding along the Missouri River were maintained by local associations or private owners, with…