The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
Both Kansas and Missouri have opened up the COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of thousands more residents. And though more doses are flowing into the Kansa...
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Monday, March 15, 2021
The “What’s your KCQ?” team at The Star and the Kansas City Public Library have answered many of your questions (more than 100 of them) about the Kans...
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Monday, March 8, 2021
The Library's Missouri Valley Special Collections has two coloring books available for free download that celebrate...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
The Kansas City area is clearly the cradle of bandit brothers, having produced perhaps the nation’s two most notorious sets of outlaw siblings, Frank...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
As Kansas City was growing up in the late 19th century, its leaders recognized the need for respite from the hubbub of urban life. They set aside gree...
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Friday, February 19, 2021
To this day, it’s one of Kansas City’s best kept secrets: An apartment complex now sits at 2929 Main Street, sprawled out between a school and a hotel...
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Friday, February 12, 2021
Standing at 11th and Main streets downtown is a peculiar street sign labeled Petticoat Lane. Taking in the surrounding parking garages, banks, and off...
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
On a hill off Eastern Avenue, just south of where 1-435 now intersects Raytown Road, once stood a building with a complicated past. The two-story, co...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Born 150 years ago in what was still officially the City of Kansas, Mattie Rhodes lived a quiet life that ended before she could accomplish anything t...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
In hindsight, Kansas City’s development as the largest city in western Missouri seemed inevitable. Its location at the confluence of two rivers made i...