In his ongoing war on "woke," President Donald Trump has instructed the National Park Service to scrub any language he would deem negative, unpatriotic or smacking of "improper partisan ideology" from signs and presentations visitors encounter at national parks and historic sites.
When the owners of a local clock shop recently were forced out of their longtime lease in Kansas City’s Brookside neighborhood, they knew what was at stake in quickly finding a new business home.
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Volunteers are still welcome for Project Shine, the annual community spruce-up event in the Independence School District which takes place Saturday morning at three schools.
A Kansas City, Kansas man who was pulled over by Independence police for having expired plates on a suspected stolen vehicle will spend 10 years in prison for drug and gun possession.
Missouri has among the highest rates of antipsychotic drug use in nursing home residents, contributing to the state’s health care system ranking near the bottom nationally in a report released Wednesday.
Freedom’s Frontier, a coalition of more than 200 historically significant sites on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border, will “cease to exist” if Congress approves proposed legislation to defund National Heritage Areas, the organization’s spokesman says.
U.S. Senate Republican leaders expressed confidence Tuesday they’ll be able to tamp down opposition to various elements of the party’s “big, beautiful bill” in time to approve the measure before the Fourth of July, though they acknowledged there’s considerable work left to do.
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states may ban hormone treatments for transgender teens, rejecting the claim that such gender-based discrimination is unconstitutional.