Wyandotte County

A new Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department master plan also suggests that the department needs more staff, some companies fail to meet response time standards and the department needs to accelerate replacing older vehicles. The meeting got testy because the fire chief said he did not know what any of this would cost.

Farms and non-profits around Kansas City have recently lost, or could lose, grant funding from the USDA under the Trump Administration. Despite facing financial uncertainty, urban growers plan to continue fighting food insecurity.

Black Kansans die at higher rates of seven of nine leading causes of death than all other Kansans. Advocates say now is an important time to focus on these disparities.

After the sudden closure of a Kansas City, Kansas, health clinic that mostly served unhoused and uninsured patients, staffers at Care Beyond the Boulevard mobile health clinic ramped up operations to help fill the gap.

Staffers at Care Beyond the Boulevard mobile health clinic ramped up operations to help fill the gap left from the sudden closure of a Kansas City, Kansas health clinic that mostly served unhoused and uninsured patients.

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area. Some staff think the tension set back the tuberculosis response — or at least made it more difficult.

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of Tuesday.

El brote de tuberculosis comenzó en enero del año pasado. Los funcionarios de salud de Kansas dicen que los números están tendiendo a la baja, pero aún esperan encontrar más casos.

A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be one of the largest in the U.S. since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness in the 1950s. We'll discuss the disease, what we know about this outbreak's origins, and who's at risk.

Kansas has reported one of its largest tuberculosis outbreaks since the 1950s, beginning in Wyandotte County. But infectious disease expert Dr. Dana Hawkinson says the risk to most residents is "extremely low."

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation officially concluded suicide was the former detective's cause of death, although it could not say how he obtained a gun. Golubski died the hour his federal trial was set to begin on charges of violating the civil rights of multiple women.

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.