The Roo Pride car debuted as UMKC basketball heads back to Municipal Auditorium after several years away, with a Roo Blue Friday pep rally at the UMKC Streetcar stop.

Alexander Holmes had his bond revoked and now faces lifetime sex-offender registration after a Brown County plea deal.

James Lawson told police “the cameras say it all”; surveillance footage outside his Centerpoint Medical Center room showed him enter and shut the door, then shortly afterward showed the door open as the victim appeared to struggle to breathe.

Garth Brooks says bots have worsened all tour long and vows to personally fix the mess for Kansas City fans.

Twenty teens from the American community in Germany lifted fingerprints and hunted hidden messages at the FBI's first overseas Teen Academy.

Clementine's is bringing its Gooey Butter Cake flavor to Lenexa and the Missouri riverfront this winter, with a Prairie Village shop already open.

Johnson County is planning nearly $50 million for 2027 road and stormwater work; similar projects received more than $46 million in 2025.

A Kansas City grocery chain has launched a discount store.

A new investigation ties Missouri's Human Trafficking Training Center and Utah's Operation Underground Railroad to a network of anti-trafficking groups and political allies.

Tyrone Garner, the first Black mayor of the Unified Government, says Masterson has a plan for public safety and property taxes.

Kansas City gets a sunny Friday near 79 degrees, with a warm and mostly dry weekend ahead. A 10% to 25% rain chance is possible Monday afternoon and evening in far northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas, while widespread chances remain difficult before midweek.

Health workers are tracing contacts after a single Benton County household tested positive, in a county where kindergarten vaccination lags at 64.7%.

A PAC ad attacking Cindy Holscher mixes property-tax votes with a years-old deleted post about Jesus. Here's what checks out and what doesn't.