Kansas City News

Catherine Browder has lived and worked as a writer in the Northeast for more than 30 years.

If you're traveling from downtown east on Independence Avenue, it is a gateway to the city's urban core.

At last week's Kansas City City Council meeting, city officials unanimously approved an ordinance that would allow the city attorney to execute and file any necessary documents to establish a Port Authority Port Improvement District.

President Barack Obama has announced plans to visit Kansas City next week for a speech about the economy, his third visit in 12 months.

Preservation Market 510 Westport Road, 816-531-2337 Hours: 11:30 a.m.10 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, closed SundayMonday Price: $$ A lot of foods taste particularly fine with a cold beer: pizza, hot dogs, a pig's foot.

President Barack Obama will be in town next week to deliver a remarks on the economy, according to a White House official.

A man charged with 10 shootings along Kansas City area highways earlier this year says he is innocent and he has the evidence to prove it.

Anthem Education, a for-profit college with 34 campuses across the United States, could close its campuses in Missouri because of its "rapidly deteriorating financial condition," the St. Louis Business Journal reports.

Aviation Technical Services Inc. is moved into its new location at Kansas City International Airport's Overhaul Base, and it's ready to increase its workload.

KMBC 9's Micheal Mahoney says Kansas City's Kemper Arena -- as it exists today -- looks more like a relic of the city's past than part of the plans for the city's future.

A KCTV5 viewer called our Rant line to complain about the noise and "barnyard smells" coming from the residence in the 9200 block of Askew Avenue.

Through a public records request, KCTV5 News dug through the transactions to find the card swiped at high-end restaurants for meals with administrators, school board members, consultants and community leaders, along with other questionable transactions.

A man who was carrying a gun while shopping at a south Kansas City Walmart store alarmed customers enough to call police, even though his actions are legal under Missouri open carry laws.

COMMERCIAL AIRLINERS DON'T HAVE EQUIPMENT ON THEM TO DEFEND AGAINST SUCH A DISASTER.

During the recession, Mariner Real Estate Management LLC spent millions of dollars buying thousands of Kansas City area residential lots at pennies on the dollar.

Fox4 and the afternoon blast in a worsening part of town: "Police said the shooting happened near a grocery store at 95th and Blue Ridge Blvd., around 12:35 p.m. According to authorities, the man suffered a gun shot wound to his stomach .

Kansas City police and community activists are setting a new program to train citizens how to spot and report crime, hoping to find at least one person in every Kansas City neighborhood.

THOUSANDS HAVE FLED, BRINGING THE NUMBER OF DISPLACED TO 3,500 PEOPLE. PROTESTS RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY.

To encourage people to come forward with information that can help police make arrests, community activists are creating a new group to help spot and report crime.

Several dozen Kansas Citians got a close-up look Sunday at the status of the area's ultimate rehab project: Corinthian Hall, the once and future location of the .