While the Independence City Council unanimously approved a community improvement district Tuesday for the Blue Ridge Crossing retail area on the Kansas City border, they hope the business owners follow through on stated plans that the CID’s biggest purpose is to boost security.
The president of the Independence School District Board of Education says she takes responsibility and regrets an honest mistake in campaign finances that led to a recent fine from the Missouri Ethics Commission
A Kansas City man faces felony charges after he led Independence police on a chase Tuesday morning into northeast Kansas City while driving a stolen car.
Eastern Jackson County schools and students in the news.
Almost 30,000 federal employees in the Kansas City area are caught in the chaos that has defined President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Missouri Republicans formally began the push to reinstate a ban on abortion Tuesday night, with a proposed constitutional amendment outlawing the procedure with limited exceptions for victims rape and incest.
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A bill changing the terms of the Missouri minimum wage law approved by voters four months ago will leave all the promised benefits in place but may delay their implementation, the chairman of a House committee looking at the law said Wednesday.
The U.S. Postal Service said it’s accepting “all international inbound mail and packages” from China and Hong Kong Posts, walking back an announcement made only hours earlier to halt some overseas shipments.
Missouri lawmakers are hoping to reduce cell-phone usage in schools with bipartisan legislation that would require school districts make a policy restricting mobile devices during instructional time. State Reps.