state line

Five years ago, Kansas and Missouri reached a truce in the long-running “border war,” ending the poaching of each other's businesses across the state line. Everyone’s been a winner, especially taxpayers, so why is that agreement now at risk of ending?

The Kansas-Missouri border splits Kansas City, and divides the metro region more evenly, and sometimes problematically, than any American metro region cut in two by a state line. It affects how public transit and emergency services work — and puts the metro in the middle of a tug-of-war for business.

A patchwork of counties and cities huddled around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers makes it harder to develop affordable, efficient public transit in the Kansas City region. Transit funding decisions get handled within each jurisdiction, with little or no coordination between them, and the KCATA has no power to levy taxes.

The Kansas-Missouri border splits Kansas City, and divides the metro region more evenly, and sometimes problematically, than any American metro region cut in two by a state line.

Think we would all get along better if we lived under one flag – from Olathe to Leavenworth, Liberty to Grandview?Some young Kansas City-metro…

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is offering to stop spending state tax incentives to lure Missouri businesses across the state line but only if the Missouri…

A report of shots fired at a police car near 55th and Oak streets started a car chase that ended with a wreck on the other side of the state line.Kansas…

If you’ve driven down State Line Road just north of 39th Street recently, you’ve seen the bustling construction under way. It’s a multi-million dollar…

Applebee’s is leaving the Kansas City area after bouncing around the region for decades, collecting tax incentives. Applebee’s parent company DineEquity…

Kansas Citians have no shortage of players to root for in baseball’s All-Star game.Of course, six Royals players are in Cincinnati, but other teams are…

A regional planning group says it will wade into the issue of conflicting police pursuit policies in the Kansas City area.The decision by the Mid America…

High-speed car chases are familiar scenes in movies and on TV — cop cars flying down the streets and highways with their sirens blaring, trying to keep…