Kansas City marks Juneteenth, World Cup fever remains at a fever pitch, Johnson County Parks & Rec screens the movie "Jaws," ...

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The pioneering 265-unit West Bottoms Flats project is now leasing and its Cleveland developer is so confident about her historic warehouse redevelopment she’s already planning a $25 million expansion.

Last October an Oklahoma forensic team found 12 unmarked coffins containing human remains in a Tulsa cemetery. What investigators called a “mass grave” represented evidence of what witnesses had ...

In 2019 restoration crews began work on a 200-year-old Clay County cabin. They daubed the cabin’s interior walls and stabilized its foundation, inspecting and replacing deteriorated hand-hewn logs. On ...

The new owners of the Country Club Plaza will emphasize safety by installing more than 100 surveillance cameras and employing a more visible security force that can make arrests as part of its revival ...

Unlike many of her Crossroads neighbors — hoping to draw in crowds of football fans still riding high from Kansas City’s Super Bowl win — Jill Cockson’s business wasn’t open during Wednesday’s Chiefs ...

We’re marking three big holidays this week, none of which qualify you for a day off. Today is Cinco de Mayo. Sunday is Mother’s Day. And Friday is Victory Day, a new holiday declared by President ...

It’s going to be a week of mourning as Catholics around the world mark today’s passing of Pope Francis. The Argentinian-born pontiff was 88 years old. Francis’s death triggers a series of rituals and ...

HAYS, Kansas — In increasingly dry western Kansas, underground water makes everything possible. Irrigation for crops. Stock water for cattle. Drinking water for towns. In all, the Ogallala Aquifer ...

Before Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, there was Steamboat Willie, a very Mickey-esque character who is not, at least legally, the same mouse. The Walt Disney Co. fought for decades to keep control of ...

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