Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said the investigation his office started in March into the Hickman Mills School District prompted a full audit. The investigation began after a whistleblower ...

Grocery stores accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in 12 states will soon have to accommodate new ...

Hundreds of workers and civil rights leaders rallied with renewed energy in Kansas City just moments after the news broke ...

A new Missouri law requires the school district to get voter approval to continue the four-day week. But whether Independence voters will weigh in on keeping the shorter schedule may depend on the ...

The police inquiry into Melanie Arroyo, who became a U.S. citizen in 2018 and has served on the Lenexa City Council since 2021, was sparked by a 74-year-old Republican resident who called the Kansas B ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe hasn’t called a special session yet to discuss redistricting, but he indicated he's moving closer ...

As the Trump administration ramps up its mass deportation campaign, with several recent incidents of ICE raids in Kansas City ...

Families and community leaders celebrated the opening of a new playground at Boston Daniels Park, named for the city’s first Black police chief. Like much of the disinvested neighborhood around it on ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

White sent a letter to all Jackson County employees Wednesday announcing his decision. But he also said he might reconsider.

U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell, a Democrat representing St. Louis County, was repeatedly challenged about the war in Gaza at a town ...

The risk from the recalled shrimp is "quite low," said Donald Schaffner, a food safety expert at Rutgers University.