North Kansas City coffee shops serve heart health awareness with your morning brew
PARKVILLE, Mo. (KCTV) — During February, NKC Health and four local coffee shops have teamed up to raise awareness for heart health. It’s called ‘Love your heart’. February marks American Heart Month, a time to highlight cardiovascular disease and raise awareness about the signs to watch for.
Wyandotte High School closed from Feb. 9-13 as cleanup, air testing continue
Wyandotte High School will be closed from Feb. 9-13 as mitigation, cleanup and air testing continue at the building due to a fire that occurred late in January.
Kansas City’s working unhoused: For more people, ‘getting a job’ isn’t enough to afford...
Five mornings a week for the past few months, Jalisa Bennett runs through the halls of a Kansas City homeless shelter with a singular mission — find someone with car keys willing to drive her to work. “I go up and down, running around this whole building. Everybody who...
Why Missouri’s Top Breakfast Burrito Sits by an Airport
The best breakfast burrito in Missouri requires a drive near a huge airport apparently.
Argentine restaurant brings World Cup celebration to Kansas
SHAWNEE, Kan. (KCTV) - The World Cup may be months away, but Buenos Aires Restaurant isn’t waiting to celebrate. The establishment gave the local Argentine community a taste of how they’ll honor their team when the tournament begins. For Argentines living far from home, the World Cup represents...
Second alarm fire displaces 8 families at Overland Park apartments
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) - Firefighters quickly brought a two-story apartment building fire under control Saturday evening with no reported injuries, though the blaze displaced eight families. Overland Park firefighters were dispatched to the Colonial Gardens Apartments at 87th and Broadmoor shortly after 8:30 p.m....
Homicide investigation opens after man found shot in head at KC convenience store
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A man was shot and killed at a Kansas City convenience store on Saturday evening. At around 5:30 p.m., on Saturday, February 8, officers were called to the 8200 block of Troost on a reported shooting. As officers arrived, they were directed to a convenience store in the area. There, they...
Kansas City shelter dog competes at Puppy Bowl on Sunday
A Kansas City shelter dog competed at the 22nd annual Puppy Bowl on Sunday.
Police brutality shocked Kansas City’s Black community in 1941. Community members took action.
Recent accounts of a brutal law enforcement presence descending on a city recalled an earlier moment in Kansas City’s history, when Black civic leaders successfully forced the removal of the city’s police chief. I wrote about the removal of Chief Lear Reed in “Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the...
New Kansas City area Lego shop offers joy, nostalgia and a mountain of bricks
With a discerning eye, Cortney Frazon picks through one of the heaping piles of Lego bricks and pieces at the center of her Lee’s Summit store and picks out a hidden imposter. The tiny piece at first glance appears to be Lego, but a closer look reveals it to be off-brand. Off it goes to the Bin of Shame with the...

















