Swope Park

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: Kansas City's parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: our parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: Kansas City's parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

Stay-at-home orders have been in place for more than a month, and restrictions for many metro residents are set to end Sunday, May 3.

Eight years ago, 70% of the animals that came into Kansas City, Missouri’s animal shelter were euthanized. “It was dreadful,” Kansas City Councilwoman…

Segment 1: An update on the Kansas Board of Regents' strategic 10-year plan for higher education which wraps next year.Foresight 2020 has three goals for…

For 62 days this fall, Kansas City was blanketed in the arts. The citywide Open Spaces festival included 200 artists, local and national, who shared…

Segment 1: Growing up poor in the Heartland.Local journalist and author Sarah Smarsh has been getting a lot of national attention for her new book,…

“You can choose to share your secrets or not share your secrets,” David Hanson tells his audiences.For several years, Hanson has led those audiences…

Segment 1: Local man's shares story behind an American prison riot during the Vietnam War.50 years have passed since a riot occured at a notorious…

For a while now, much of Kansas City's arts community has been abuzz about Open Spaces, the 62-day arts festival that's giving a platform to local,…

Kansas City's first biennial Open Spaces launches this week. And, like the metropolitan area itself, Open Spaces is sprawling. It stretches 62 days, from…