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Less than one week after taking office, new Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins veteran KMBC television news reporter Mi...

He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...

The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his first...

Drive through the Mississippi Delta today, and you’ll find it dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Most c...

As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his president...

Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...

As the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival settles into its summer production of Shakespeare in Love, let us reappreciate the genius of...

Less than a week before the June 18 general election, the two candidates to succeed outgoing Kansas City Mayor Sly James face off on the issues and co...

In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...

Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...