Local nonprofits got to showcase their costumes at Planet Comicon in Kansas City. Throughout the year, their work impacts kids in the metro area.

Students involved in the Altoona Area High School’s musical, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” are eager to perform in a couple ...

Toni Pierce-Sands and her sister, both young children, are sitting on a stoop at their grandparents’ farmhouse in rural South Dakota. Her sister looks shy, turned inward. Meanwhile, as Pierce-Sands ...