Johnston-based grocery store chain Fareway will start construction soon on its first full-size store in the Kansas City metro area.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed two executive orders aimed at combating illegal immigration as part of his official act in office.

Kansas City has joined the likes of Western Australia and Sri Lanka as the metro was named among the top 25 best travel destinations in the world by the BBC.

One man has been arrested and charged in connection to the 2023 sexual assault of a coworker at a Kansas City McDonalds.

A Kansas City man was injured after he allegedly attempted to speed down an I-70 exit ramp before a mid-week rollover collision.

The Kansas-Missouri border splits Kansas City, and divides the metro region more evenly, and sometimes problematically, than any American metro region cut in two by a state line.

JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS IS ONE OF THOSE AREAS IMPACTED BY ALL OF THOSE CLOSURES. AND THAT IS WHERE WE FIND KMBC NINE S JACKSON KURTZ TONIGHT. HE IS LIVE IN OVERLAND PARK, JACKSON TELL US, WHERE ARE YOU?

Kansas and Missouri declared a truce. The two states had for years engaged in a bloodletting competition to lure businesses to their side of the Kansas City region — handing out lucrative incentives to move a corporate headquarters just a few miles across the state line.

Kansas City’s multifamily market demonstrated its usual resilience to end 2024 despite local and national economic turbulence, according to Yardi Matrix’s December 2024 Kansas City multifamily report.

Popcorn and movie theaters are inseparable today. But a century ago, cinemas actually banned the beloved treat for being cheap and messy. A Kansas City saleswoman named Julia Braden became one of the first popcorn vendors to talk her way inside the lobby — and built a concession empire in the middle of the Great Depression.

School districts in Missouri currently must provide 1,044 hours of instruction, or approximately 166 days, per school year. Some districts build in snow days to their calendar, while others opt to use up to 36 virtual learning hours instead. The state caps the number of weather makeup days at 10, forgiving any above that cap.