Come summer, most adults dream of being kids again and getting to spend weeks at sleepaway camp or river rafting through the Grand Canyon. Me? I just miss running through the lawn sprinkler. There was ...

Analia Valentin tried out the Galatyn Park Urban Center fountain during the Wildflower Arts & Music Festival in May. (Michael Reaves - Staff Photographer) The good points of a trip to a fountain where ...

Jets of water, installed in center of Binns Park in 2005, an 'awesome, entertaining' attraction. BY TOM KNAPP Staff Writer Bailee Herr is soaked. She, her 23-month-old sister Anaiah and her 8-year-old ...

But this ban hasn’t always been in place. For decades, Kansas City kids cooled down on summer days by running through the checkerboard of spouts shooting water into the sky. The fountains have drawn ...