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Bird Flu has Hit Cows in Kansas and Sparked Precautions in Missouri. Here’s...
Don’t drink raw milk. It’s one piece of public health advice almost every doctor, scientist and public health official can get behind. Especially as bird flu jumps from chickens to cows to a handful...
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Kansas City Launches New Effort to Counter Gun Violence
One young man didn’t realize that he’d chosen to sit sandwiched between two of the highest-profile people in Kansas City. Their race and gender threw him off. Kansas City’s Black mayor was on one...
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‘Time for a Reckoning.’ Kansas Farmers Brace for Water Cuts to Save Ogallala...
JETMORE, Kan. — An inch or two of corn peeks out of the dirt, just enough to reveal long rows forming over the horizon. Sprinkler engines roar as they force water from underground to pour life into...
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Why You Might Want to Donate Your Brain to Science
Imagine a piece of paper. On one side, draw scientists studying cures for Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, dementia, the effects of concussions and more. On the other side, draw generous...
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Nick’s Picks | Juneteenth, Stadium Drama and Summer Solstice
America celebrates its newest federal holiday on Wednesday. It’s Juneteenth, a day set aside to remember the end of slavery. Banks and most government buildings will be closed on Wednesday. And don’t...
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Kansas Bill Offers Bonding to Cover 75% of Cost to Build Chiefs, Royals Stadiums
TOPEKA — Legislation to be presented Monday to Kansas lawmakers to lure the Kansas City Royals or Kansas City Chiefs across the state line would allow issuance of bonds to cover 75% of stadium...
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Kansas City Area High School Students Get Big Scholarships
At noon on May 1, Mariah Durgan sat in the cafeteria of North Kansas City High School, anxiously refreshing her email and asking friends and classmates if they had received anything in their inboxes....
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Chiefs, Royals ask Kansas for Incentives to Help Teams Leave Missouri
Representatives of the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals urged Kansas lawmakers Monday to expand a tax incentive program to provide the teams millions of dollars to leave Missouri and set up shop in new...
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Kansas Legislature Passes Bill to Lure Kansas City Chiefs, Royals
TOPEKA — The Kansas City Royals and Chiefs could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to move from Missouri and build new stadiums across the state line under legislation...
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Technology is Reshaping Education. Are Schools Ready?
Meet ZB. He can teach students with disabilities how to code and develop their social skills. He hangs out with students in their classes, affirming them with positive messages. He is “changing the...
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Harvesting Change | Making Local Food Connections in the Heartland
Star Nealy loves fresh tomatoes. It’s why she and her husband first started gardening in 2009. Now, they own a 1.5-acre farm in the Vineyard neighborhood where they grow more than 30,000 pounds of...
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Missouri Lawmakers Criticize Kansas Attempt to Poach Royals, Chiefs
State and local officials from Missouri denounced Kansas legislators’ attempt to lure the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals across the state line, saying they would take steps to keep both teams. Kansas...
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Harvesting Change | Localizing Our Food System
As part of the Flatland series “Harvesting Change,” Flatland in Focus looks at the people and policies that influence the transition away from industrial agriculture to a more localized food system...
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Can Panasonic Help Kansas be Saudi Arabia of Clean Energy?
Panasonic Energy’s top executive declared Thursday that its new 4.7 million-square-foot plant now under construction in De Soto “will be the largest battery manufacturing plant in the world.” Add...
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Nick’s Picks | Country Club Plaza Sale, Presidential Debate
Amid growing concerns over crime and store vacancies, the Country Club Plaza gets new owners this week. Mired in debt, the financially struggling shopping district is being sold to a Texas company....
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2 Years After Missouri Banned Abortion, Navigating Access Still Involves...
When Missouri outlawed abortion two years ago, Nicole was far more worried for her grown children than for herself. It had been two decades since she last gave birth, when she suffered a serious...
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Tapping Tax Credits to Fuel Alternative Energy
For years, Paul Holstine spent his free time following news about the growing “alternative energy” sector to keep up with the latest on solar, electric vehicles and other new technologies. That was...
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Meeting Hints at New Owners’ Plan for Country Club Plaza
After months of negotiations, Kansas City’s iconic Country Club Plaza is finally getting new owners. The Texas-based HP Village Associates is expected to complete a deal on Friday and hold a press...
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Kansas Grapples With College-Educated Brain Drain
When Frank Russell graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in mechanical engineering, he had a specific type of company in mind. “I didn’t want a huge corporate gig where there’s...
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Minority Chambers of Commerce Join Forces on Ward Parkway
The tony address is not lost on anyone. Ward Parkway, symbolic of Kansas City’s cultured and monied elite, has long been regarded as an address with financial cache. But avenues for attaining such...
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