Sunflowers

Grinter Farm's sunflower field in Lawrence, Kansas, draws visitors and photographers from around the world. This season’s flowers are expected to fade more quickly than previous years’ due to the extreme heat this week.

After a project to encapsulate all 50 states into songs went unfulfilled for years, a handful of musicians from Kansas and Missouri took it upon themselves to finally make it happen.

Sugar Creek is a small community about nine miles east of downtown Kansas City. In 1904, Standard Oil opened an oil refinery there and immigrants from…

Updated at 3:42 p.m. with governor's statement — Missouri’s auditor wants to know whether it’s OK for Gov. Mike Parson’s office to claim First Amendment…

Any member of the public can go to the debates in Missouri House or Senate. And in November, voters said the discussions about legislation and strategy…

The federal government recently tore up Debbie and Tony Morrison’s front yard in the small southeast Kansas town of Caney.And the two are happy about…

Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry yellow dirt to reveal a sugar beet seed that’s no larger than a peppercorn. It seems…

Plant breeder Jessica Barb is on a mission to improve how sunflowers self-pollinate, a trait that'll be increasingly important to farmers are wild bee…

When it comes to food, everyone has a guilty pleasure.According to KCUR Food Critic Jenny Vergara, it may be something that’s full of fat and calories. Or…

“Makers” is a series that shares stories of why people are compelled to create something with their own hands. Name: E-Bike KC, Dave AbadieMakes: Custom…

For all the reasons one thinks of a small town in America — a small, blue-collar community where people leave their doors unlocked and kids play ball in…

Picher, Oklahoma rode the wave of lead and zinc mining in the region that began in the late 19th Century. By 1980 it was an EPA Superfund site and by the…