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The Plaza Branch invites you to join us for an evening of holiday fun! Expert librarians from around the metro area come together to suggest great boo...

Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...

Humanity has explored far beyond the reaches of Earth, nearly to the edge of interstellar space (and we’re getting closer every day). We have visit...

The Kansas City Public Library’s Plaza location, 4801 Main St., hosts its first Summer Reading Festival, featuring bestselling author Candi...

For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...

The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G. Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face off in the annu...

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Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...

Philanthropy is essential to making America what it is. Individuals, foundations, and businesses donate more than $360 billion annually, underwriti...

At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...