During a conversation with @EdEastonJr, Texas Longhorns legend Derrick Johnson praised Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy's progress

Panasonic is investing billions of dollars in a state-of-the-art electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto, Kansas. But the company is slowing down full production in response to the Trump administration’s clean energy policies and slumping Tesla sales.

Kansas high school athletes in 2025 showed true grit and determination. Derby’s boys bowling team claimed a second straight Class 6A championship, with Dawson Baumgartner shining brightest in the state tournament. Maize South freshman Krislynn Martinez recorded a flawless wrestling season, finishing 37-0 without surrendering a single takedown.

A woman was shot and killed at an apartment building in the 8700 block of Countryshire Lane in south Kansas City just after noon Tuesday, according to a Kansas City police spokesperson..

Kansas City’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee on Tuesday advanced an ordinance that would let the city spend up to $1 million to buy the long‑blighted Robandee Shopping Center at Bannister Road and James A.

Over 230,000 students across Kansas receive free school lunch through SNAP benefits, but proposed federal budget cuts could take that support away, leaving students wondering not what’s for lunch, but if they’ll get any at all.

The Democratic National Committee's new website attacks Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' and estimates its impact in Kansas.

Kansas City police are looking for a missing 12-year-old girl. De’Mariana Johnson has been missing since 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to a police spokesperson. She was last seen in the 3700 block of Askew, and was wearing a white tank top, jean shorts and black and white shoes with light-up soles.

TOPEKA — A perpetually homeless man abused by his parents and shuffled as a youth among more than 17 foster homes and two psychiatric hospitals received a life sentence in prison Tuesday without possibility of parole for half a century in the rape and murder of a Topeka preschool girl entrusted to his care.

The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating a second Tuesday homicide. Officers were called around 11:45 a.m. to the 8700 block of Countryshire Lane on a shooting.

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