More than 60 victors crowned at 2025 KC People’s Choice Awards. Here’s the winners
While there were many winners at the 2025 Kansas City People’s Choice Awards, everyone wins when the city’s urban core is celebrated. In the ceremony’s seventh year, but the first year at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, businesses, nonprofits, entertainers, and artists all turned out in their red carpet...
Waldo family’s side business gets people camping
Longtime Kansas Citians Brad and Leslie McTighe were camping with their children in Arkansas when the idea behind Waldo Outfitters was born. That was back in fall 2021. “The campfire was going, we were listening to great music, the kids were playing closeby,” described Brad. “It was so...
Moldy mango pulp, clogged sink: Kansas City area restaurant inspections
From containers stored on the floor to two-week-old sausage, 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...
This Kansas City salon celebrates Black locs — and a new Missouri law protecting...
It is just after noon inside Your Natural Image hair salon in South Kansas City, Missouri, on a Thursday in July. 16-year-old Cornelius Mitchell has just come from under the dryer. Mitchell, a Black student at Raymore-Peculiar High School, wears locs. They're black with brown tips that extend just below...
Bar K announces immediate closure, including Kansas City, Missouri, location
The owners of Bar K posted on Tuesday that they are immediately closing all three of their locations due to “a variety of challenges.”
‘Always so mannerable’: Fallen WyCo deputy loved KCK pizza place since childhood
Wilson's Pizza and Grill is a popular spot on Quindaro Blvd. in Kansas City, Kansas. Wyandotte County Sheriff's Deputy Elijah Ming grew up with it. As the deputy got older, he had a menu favorite.
What we know about suspect arrested in shooting death of Wyandotte County deputy
Late Saturday night, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation identified the suspect arrested in the deadly shooting of Wyandotte County Deputy Elijah Ming.
Suspect accused in string of bank robberies across KC metro
KANSAS CITY – Staci-Christopher Zjacku Cannon, 26, was charged with four counts of bank robbery and two counts of attempted bank robbery in a now-unsealed federal indictment filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Missouri, according to the United State's Attorney. The indictment alleges that between Feb....
UG Launches Test Program to Modernize Trash and Recycling Service
Public Works’ Solid Waste Management Division is launching a new test program designed to improve trash and recycling collection in Kansas City, Kansas. Beginning Friday, August 1, participating households will transition to a modernized system using 96-gallon trash and recycling carts picked up by truck-mounted arms...
Jury finds man not guilty in 2024 south Kansas City deadly shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A jury found a man not guilty after he was charged in connection with a deadly shooting that killed two people in south Kansas City in February 2024. Last Friday, following a weeklong trial in Jackson County Court, Ronnie Mitchell was found not guilty of all charges, including two counts of...