Kansas City News

The Missouri Highway Commission has included funding for Kansas City's streetcar project if voters approve a sales tax increase next month, but some critics said the state money won't be enough and could create a funding gap.

KMBC 9 meteorologist Nick Bender says we may see some storms late Wednesday in the northern parts of the KMBC 9 viewing area and again late Thursday across a wider area of the region.

Small explosions and heavy smoke from an underground electrical fire caused evacuations at Kansas City's River Market area on Wednesday.

For the second time in three weeks, Kansas City police are holding a checkpoint to make sure that everyone who is driving has a legal license to do so.

Flood Warning issued July 9 at 9:35AM CDT expiring July 10 at 8:58AM CDT in effect for: Carroll, Lafayette, Saline Flood Warning issued July 9 at 9:35AM CDT expiring July 10 at 7:45PM CDT in effect for: Carroll, Chariton, Saline Flood Warning issued July 9 at 8:44AM CDT expiring July 12 at 5:00AM CDT in effect for: Cooper, Saline Flood Warning ... (more)

An underground electrical fire took place in the Carollo's Italian Gourmet Grocery unit at the City Market late Wednesday morning.

Lifetouch Services, which prints yearbooks and provides commercial printing services, will move its production operation to a plant in Loves Park, Ill.

Lifetouch Services Inc., a subsidiary of Lifetouch Inc., will lay off 244 employees from its Kansas City location.

The KC Fringe Festival comes to Kansas City for eleven days beginning on July 17 and running through July 27. The festival combines theater, fashion, visual arts, burlesque, dance, music, and film to give the artist an opportunity to produce their work regardless of content.

The Park Hill School District says a data security breach might have compromised personal information of 10,210 current and former employees and students.

Populous didn't want to leave the River Market, but it had to leave to continue growing.

As work continues on the Kansas City Police Department's new East Patrol Campus, city officials just agreed to another addition to the patrol division building.

Take a hard hat tour of Corinthian Hall, the 100+ year old home of lumber baron Robert A. Long and his family.

Kansas City Public Schools will press forward with plans to turn Southwest Early College Campus into a partial charter school, leaving uncertain futures for hundreds of students and question from parents.

NOON. IT TO YOU IN THE STUDIO. REX YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE KANSAS CITY FIREFIGHTERS IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT.

National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Frank Klotz on Tuesday packed the final crate - No.

The "No Tipping the Cooks Allowed" sign at Arthur Bryant's . [Photo: Bonjwing Lee ] Given that Kansas City boasts the most barbecue restaurants per capita in the U.S. , I'm not sure that my recent tour of twelve smokehouses there qualifies as "definitive," or even comprehensive.

Kansas City, MO - infoZine - What was it like to grow up in the Kansas City area 50, 60 or even 70 years ago? Through Generation Exchange, a new program offered at area libraries, young people can check out recording equipment to interview their grandparents, neighbors and other older adults, creating a collection of stories and memories that ... (more)

KMBC 9 chief meteorologist Bryan Busby says there's a chance for severe storms late Monday and early Tuesday and those storms could bring damaging winds, hail and periods of very heavy rain.

An 80-year-old program to help American companies do business overseas is up for renewal, and the owner of one Kansas City-area company said that renewal is critical for it to keep selling its products outside the United States.