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Country Stampede takes place at Azura Amphitheater from Thursday, June 25, through Saturday, June 27, and features Rascal Flatts, Zach Top, Treaty Oak Revival, Wyatt Flores, Scotty McCreery, and Tracy Lawrence, among others. Details on the festival here. In its 30-year history, Kansas’ country music festival, Country S

Kansas City Public Schools teachers will receive a 5% base salary raise after the school board approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, the district’s teachers union. Superintendent Jennifer Collier called the raise “historic.”. “This is the highest pay increase for KC

Police are pleading with people attending Kansas City’s World Cup Fan Festival to stop stashing bags in “random” places around the event. In a social media post Saturday afternoon, the Kansas City Police Department wrote that bags that don’t meet the event’s clear bag policy were diverting law enforcement resources, as

Image Credits: Wikimedia; licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Competitive BBQ has surged in popularity over the past decade, captivating thousands of teams across the United States. According to the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), over 500 sanctioned BBQ competitions occur annually, a testament to its growing allure. Thi

Leawood’s June 16th meeting of the Leawood Governing Body started off with Councilmembers unanimously rejecting a resolution to move forward with the installation of a new splash pad at the Aquatic Center at 106th and Lee Boulevard. Earlier this year, Leawood began soliciting bids for the design and installation...

On Tuesday, June 16, about 6:30 pm, Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) officers were dispatched to Truman Road at Bennington Ave.on an injury accident call. On arrival, officers located a vehicle crashed into a pole there with significant damage. Officers and EMS located an adult male inside the vehicle with life thr

Pie rumors are dangerous because they make people curious and hungry at the same time. Hear enough chatter about the best slice in Kansas, and suddenly a casual craving turns into a full investigation with forks involved. That is the fun of a bakery with a reputation: the talk gets...

KANSAS CITY —Police are conducting a fatal shooting investigation in the during a reported home burglary. Early Friday, police were dispatched to a burglary in progress at a home in the 100 block of Little Garden in the Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs, according to a media release. A homeowner called 911 and stated

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) - A fatal motorcycle crash has shut down both directions of 50 Highway near the O’Brien overpass in Lee’s Summit, according to police. The Lee’s Summit Police Department said emergency crews responded to the area of 50 Highway near SW 3rd St. around 4 a.m. on Saturday, June 20, after reports of

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A grand jury indicted an Independence man Thursday in connection to a shooting at Independence Center nearly three years ago. Court documents filed in Jackson County on Thursday, June 18, revealed nine felony charges against 21-year-old Leandre Peterson Jr. for a shooting on Nov. 10, 2023, at