On the the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, KC-area firefighters and others work to ensure the tragedy ...

From Independence, Missouri, to Osawatomie, Kansas, data centers are angering residents and spurring bipartisan opposition.

The Missouri Supreme Court takes up issues of importance to Kansas City voters, Independence voters decide recall, a murder ...

The Kansas Abandoned Housing Act is working in Leavenworth, and proponents are hopeful it will prove successful in Kansas ...

The World Cup finally comes to Kansas City, Jackson County considers data center moratorium, and more ... Powered by Kansas City PBS, Flatland is your local nonprofit news source committed to ...

If you were to visit this Condé Nast travel site about the World Cup games coming here to the Heartland in June, you might conclude that athletes and their fans have zero interest in religion. The ...

Inside the colorful Mexican mercados, carnicerias, taquerias, cafes, panaderias and paleterias accenting Independence Avenue, Spanish is the first language for most shop owners and their customers.

Flatland columnist Bill Tammeus remembers his nephew, Karleton Fyfe, who was killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Activist groups say they’ve collected enough valid signatures to put the issue before voters. But so far, the City Council hasn’t taken up the petition. The deadline to act is Aug. 31, making Thursday ...

On a recent Wednesday evening Renee Maxwell was giving a presentation to about 15 people in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri. Soon that crowd doubled, thanks to protestors ...

It was 1954 and he was just back from the Korean War, sitting at Kansas City’s Muehlebach Hotel, having lunch with the former president of the United States. Of all the questions he might have asked ...

America marks 250 years of freedom from the British on Saturday and organizers of our area’s Fourth of July celebrations are promising the biggest firework displays, ever. The National World War I ...