A year after the Missouri state auditor’s office said it had started a performance audit of the Independence School District, the report remains unfinished and might still be a couple of months away from the public eye, despite the office’s initial estimate that it would be done by the end of 2024. “We have not heard anything for months,” ISD Superintendent Dale Herl said this week.
Scott Lakin, Jackson County’s director of collections, strongly suggests that anyone who is eligible should sign up for the county’s senior property tax credit.
Losing your last game of the season is tough on any coach. That’s why the admirable show of mutual respect between Blue Springs baseball coach Tim McElligott, and Brian Driskell, his Grain Valley counterpart, was so special Wednesday evening at Grain Valley High School.
When Dan White arrived in Kansas City still early in his long photography career, he was a “kind of a jazz fan” and visited some of the local jazz venues but admittedly didn’t know much about the city’s history with that musical genre.
The Truman girls soccer team was on the verge of getting an upset victory. Grain Valley was playing host to the Patriots for at least a share of the Suburban White Conference title with Platte County, which also had a 12-1 league record coming into Thursday.
Jackson County legislators are looking at ways to crack down on the driving of off-road vehicles such as ATVs on the streets, which is illegal.
Blue Springs South is missing an important part of its girls soccer team.
Born in Iceland to parents who met at the military base there amid World War II, Nina (Clemensen) Anders, has long held an affinity for the culture of Scandinavian and Nordic countries.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a history lesson, framed as a story of courage by a serviceman, a judge and president.
The Missouri Department of Transportation says its westernmost Interstate 70 improvements – adding a third lane in each direction from Missouri 7 in Blue Springs east past Odessa – should start in September and will last through most of 2028.