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United Way already moved five people out of one encampment as the city's new private-public housing push gets underway.
At 124th Terrace and Nieman Road, Dan Taber's carved pumpkin army raised $2,800 for Harvesters last year alone.
One dad's team sold thousands of tamales to raise $11,000 for Saturday's Step Up walk at Kauffman Stadium.
Reason Swafford had a 5% chance of survival after a barn collapse near Richmond. Months later, he walked his daughter down the aisle.
A deleted TikTok mocked the Troost Avenue cafe as “demonic” — instead it tripled its Monday business.
Young workers and neighbors broke ground on Splitlog Farm in KCK's Bethany neighborhood, aiming to feed families in the state's hungriest county.
Michael Monthervil, paralyzed in a 2014 Afghanistan training fall, is the third of six veterans to get a van this NASCAR season.
The festival moves to a gated Green Street site with $10 tickets and chaperone rules after Downtown Days was canceled.
Free admission, a Saturday parade and a carnival take over Liberty Square through Sunday.
The sixth annual Hispanic Heritage Month bash hits Corrigan Station Thursday, with $100,000 more in grants on the way.
The fair featured arts and crafts, and Friends of Shawnee Town fundraising supports the museum's educational programs.
The Crossroads shelter swapped crowded dormitories for trauma-informed private spaces as Kansas City's unhoused count tops 2,600.
Mocha lost her sight suddenly — now she's a lap dog for a 91-year-old Gladstone woman who recently lost hers too.
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