Kansas and Kansas State renew their annual football rivalry Saturday in Manhattan, with kickoff at 11 a.m. at Bill Snyder ...

On any given Thursday, a small hallway in the Jackson County Courthouse crowds with tenants, landlords, and attorneys ...

That’s not a misprint. The busiest interstate in the metro is about to disappear from your commute for nearly a year.

Inside the colorful Mexican mercados, carnicerias, taquerias, cafes, panaderias and paleterias accenting Independence Avenue, Spanish is the first language for most shop owners and their customers.

The heat is the big news story in Kansas City this week along with a lot of economic development news and the upcoming election on both sides of the state line Powered by Kansas City PBS, Flatland is ...

Rev. John Modest Miles has been on the front lines of urban redevelopment for decades. As pastor of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Miles has a firsthand view of his community. In this week’s ...

As for the frequency of disruptive divisions within religion, Jacob Randolph, a church historian who teaches at the St. Paul School of Theology, cites an old joke that if you have two Baptists in a ...

On that malevolent Sept. 11 morning almost 25 years ago, I arrived at my Kansas City Star editorial page desk about 7:15, as usual, and prepared to write another “Starbeams” column of satiric/comedic ...

“What college kid doesn’t want access to free pizza?” Jennifer Kabler asked, as she recounted a horrifying evening from two decades ago. She was taking a co-worker home, and he said that his roommate ...

On a recent Wednesday evening Renee Maxwell was giving a presentation to about 15 people in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri. Soon that crowd doubled, thanks to protestors ...

If you were to visit this Condé Nast travel site about the World Cup games coming here to the Heartland in June, you might conclude that athletes and their fans have zero interest in religion. The ...

Judith Manthe was about 10 years old and her cousin about 18 when the girls’ grandmother took them aside and spoke of prophecy. The conversation took place outside, on some of the large rocks near a ...