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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The residency requirement for Unified Government (UG) of Wyandotte County employees has been lifted. The commission voted to remove the requirement at a meeting on Thursday night at City Hall. Mayor and UG CEO Christal Watson broke the tie. It was 5-5, and because of...

A new $301 million detention center opened Thursday morning in east Kansas City, expanding Jackson County’s capacity to detain people charged with felonies while they await trial. County officials emphasized that the detention center was completed on its projected timeline and came in slightly under budget, though in...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Police Department responded to a critical injury collision last night at 46th and Blue Ridge Boulevard around 8:25 p.m. Police said a silver Hyundai Sonata was traveling northbound at a high rate of speed on Blue Ridge Blvd. when it failed to navigate a sharp curve and ran...

KANSAS CITY—A juvenile faces charges for his role in a break-in and assault that occurred at a residence in a Kansas City suburb last year. Christian Shirley is charges with 1st Degree Assault and 1st Degree Burglary, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson. Shirley was certified by a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says six businesses across the city have been shut down as part of ongoing enforcement efforts targeting illegal gambling machines. “City Council has already passed an ordinance about ensuring that they are not lawful machines to have in a gas...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Kansas City’s public safety task force issued at least 30 citations and shut down six businesses for illegal gambling machines in the last month. A new city ordinance makes the gambling machines illegal, and the public safety task force is now enforcing it. “We...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County workers no longer have to live where they work - and it came down to one vote. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, voted 6-5 on Thursday, March 19, to lift its employee residency requirement. Mayor Christal Watson cast...

Eighty-eight-year-old Stuart McIntosh raises five fingers from a sound room to start a countdown. “Five…four..” Silently, McIntosh’s last three fingers slowly close into a single point. “Good morning Foxwood Springs!” says Scott Lewis. FSTV Channel 1981 is on the air. Thus begins a 45-minute segment...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has filed suit against a Wyandotte County company, accusing the business of “widespread consumer fraud.”. Kobach’s lawsuit alleges that House Max, a real estate company, CEO Jason Jones and purchasing manager Herbert Brown Jr. lure vulnerable Kansas homeowners in...

The Kansas City metro area has no shortage of local coffee shops to choose from. Jason Presley, owner of Brew Haha Coffeehouse, knows this. (In fact, his new project, iDrinkLocal.Coffee, aims to help emphasize it by creating a running list of locally owned coffee shops to hit up.) So he...