Wyandotte County

Springtime anxiety about access to food turned ordinary people into novice homesteaders, yielding a bounty of produce in Kansas City backyards — and a feverish search for online farming instruction.

Long-term financial reports were already painting a challenging picture of Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, finances. One forecast published by the UG finance office last year predicted an economic downturn, one that would lead to $32 million in losses collectively over five years if the UG did nothing.

Randy Lopez, a Kansas City, Kansas, school board member, says the task force is solely for listening to the community. He wants to push for immediate reform.

A move to leave the Wyandotte County district attorney off a newly-formed task force on police and community relations left many in Kansas City, Kansas, scratching their heads.

The first Black district attorney in Kansas shares his thoughts on reforming policing and the justice system, and a Pulitzer Prize-winner updates his 1992 bestseller about the undermining of the American dream.

Wyandotte County's COVID-19 caseload is the second-highest in Kansas with 1,688 known cases reported on Tuesday. As known cases increase, county contact tracers are struggling to keep up.

The Kansas Speedway has anchored the enormous Village West development in Wyandotte County and helped promote tourism. COVID-19 has changed the tourism part for the foreseeable future.

Kansas and Missouri municipalities continue to ease restrictions on businesses that were put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.

About 500-750 people are being tested weekly, but the Unified Government's chief medical officer wants to see that number increased to 1,000-1,200 tests a week.

How to get tested in Wyandotte County, how and why long-term care facilities were troubled long before the pandemic, the possible legal fallout from COVID-19, and selling out of puzzles.

The two counties, which have registered some of the highest COVID-19 case totals in Kansas, waited an extra week to lift some restrictions on going out in public.

As stay-at-home orders start to lift, business owners are thinking about how best to protect their employees, customers, and profits.