Kansas City voters will decide on April 8 whether to renew the city’s public safety sales tax, as part of its efforts to fund and build a new municipal jail. Supporters of the tax renewal say the city ...

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All seven candidates running for the Kansas City Public Schools board support the $474 million bond issue that’s also on the ...

Each year, Startup Buses around the country head towards Austin for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival. Startup Bus is a competition where businesspeople, designers and coders — buspreneurs — ...

This story was originally published by The Beacon, an online news outlet focused on local, in-depth journalism in the public interest. The immigrant detainee, a client of Rekha Sharma-Crawford, would ...

Dr. Cynthia Johnson shares images of the proposed renovations to Center Middle School. (Photo by Lindsey Foat) As the Kansas City school district prepares to reopen two middle schools next fall, Lead ...

The Bad News: For the first time in weeks, our kids will have to spend all five days in the classroom. The Good News: We get to bask in spring-like temperatures. The National Weather Service is ...