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Gwendolyn Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, leads a discussion of its 2...

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...

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...

The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...

On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade. It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...

Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...

There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...

The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million pou...