Northland neighbors push for Trader Joe’s location closer to home
A growing number of Northland residents say they’re tired of driving across the Kansas City metro just to shop at the popular grocery chain—and now, they’re pushing to bring one closer to home.
Roaches & missing floor tiles: Latest Kansas City-area restaurant inspections
From grimy microwaves to pizza crusts in trash bags, health inspectors in Missouri and Kansas found numerous violations at Kansas City-area restaurants last week. Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and grocery stores are required to get food inspections, and governments have to...
Over 200 Low-Wage Workers, KCPS Parents Pack Emergency Meeting to Protest Missouri Speaker Patterson’s...
Kansas City, Mo.--Over 200 low-wage workers, Kansas City Public School (KCPS) parents, and community members packed an emergency meeting on Wednesday to organize against Speaker of the House Jon Patterson’s plan to swap out the income tax with sales tax hikes on everything resulting in "a $5 billion hole in the state...
Instead of tearing down century-old homes in Rockhill Crest, an urban renewal firm is...
When a developer snaps up a cluster of houses in Kansas City’s urban core, especially from a major institution like the University of Missouri–Kansas City, flashy renderings of glassy mixed-use projects seem to follow. That’s not the plan in Rockhill Crest. Local firm CORE Urban Renew is...
Records request shows KCATA bus driver’s employment ended on day of fatal crash
It’s been two months since a deadly crash involving a KCATA bus and a motorcyclist. KSHB 41 News learned the bus driver's employment ended the same day of the crash, Jan. 13.
Unified Government commission votes to lift residency requirement for employees
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas’ board of commissioners voted to lift the residency requirement for Unified Government employees on Thursday evening.
MoDOT working on temporary fix for US 169 Highway
During our latest Let’s Talk event in Gladstone, residents wanted to know when northbound U.S. 169 Highway will reopen.
The 1.2 Gigawatt ‘AI Factory’ is Coming to Independence, MO—How 1,300 New Jobs are...
A massive transformation is quietly taking shape in Independence, Missouri, and it could ripple through the housing market faster than most people expect. A new...
A Leawood dry cleaner closed 20 years ago. Its chemicals are still in the...
Toxic chemicals linger at a long-gone dry cleaning business at 103rd Street and State Line Road in Leawood. Tri- and Tetracholoroethylenes — banned or being phased out because of their links to Parkinson’s disease and certain cancers — have been in the soil and groundwater there since before 2010, spreading east and...
Olathe police arrest man in suspected Ridgeview Road stabbing of woman
Olathe police arrested a 27-year-old man Thursday afternoon on suspicion of aggravated battery after he allegedly injured a woman in a suspected stabbing. The incident, police said, happened near the 1000 block of North Ridgeview Road. Police were called to the area just after 12 p.m. Thursday. “Officers responded to...
