Regional Politics

The CSSP report found that in 2022, Kansase and its contractors failed to make the required improvements to the foster care system.

A proposed tax increase for the school district in Clay County was voted down Tuesday night, as Clay and Jackson County held special elections.

Fitzpatrick stated that his office will also look at claims that callers couldn’t get through to file an appeal.

The site of last year's crash is among those recommended to be shuttered.

A new rule intended to prevent minors from checking out “obscene” or “pornographic” materials from public libraries has gone into effect in the state of Missouri.

Johnson and Wyandotte counties were among those that held primaries on Tuesday, Aug. 1.

“Each of our 12 Council Members bring different life and subject-matter expertise to the Chambers each week, and I look forward to all we will accomplish together on behalf of the people of Kansas City over the next four years," Mayor Quinton Lucas said.

The court ordered Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to sign the accurate fiscal note for an abortion ballot initiative within 24 hours, or by 1 p.m. Friday.

On Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission unanimously voted 5-0 to become a transgender sanctuary city, refusing to enforce the newly enacted "Women's Bill of Rights."

Since 2017, Missouri has been an “open carry” state, meaning you don’t have to have a permit to carry a gun openly or concealed.

Lucas encouraged the attorney general to “allow democracy in our state to work" by allowing Missourians to vote through a ballot initiative to repeal or keep a near-total abortion ban.

Blunt, 73, spent 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Senate from 2011 until leaving office in January

The Democratic governor in Kansas is defending changes in the sex listings on transgender people’s birth certificates in a federal court filing arguing that continuing the changes doesn’t violate a new state law rolling back transgender rights.

The increase in salary will take effect on Aug. 1, 2023.

The nearly 200 transgender people who rushed in recent weeks to change the sex listings on their driver’s licenses created an immediate “public safety concern,” a state-court judge declared Wednesday in keeping in place a ban on those changes.

A bill honoring 16-year-old Cooper Davis who lost his life to fentanyl poisoning in 2021 has passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee and will head to the Senate floor.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced on Wednesday, July 12 that Kansas is receiving $13.3 million in funding to modernize electrical grid infrastructure.

May is vying for the Democratic nomination against St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell and Marine veteran Lucas Kunce.

Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson has signed legislation to extend health care for new mothers and prohibit handheld phone use while driving

Kansas must stop allowing transgender people to change the sex listed on their driver’s licenses, a state-court judge ordered Monday as part of a lawsuit filed by the state’s Republican attorney general.

"[T]hese unintended consequences unfortunately outweigh the good,” the governor said, in part. “I cannot sign this bill with these provisions as they are currently written.”

A death penalty case will continue against a Missouri man who is citing new DNA evidence in his innocence claim for the stabbing death of a former newspaper reporter, the governor announced Thursday.

Gov. Laura Kelly issued a directive that allows agencies under her control to defy a legal opinion issued earlier this week by Republican state Attorney General Kris Kobach, telling them to follow their lawyers’ narrower view of the law.

If you’re old enough to drive, should you also be old enough to vote? Well, a statewide group is lobbying for 16-year-olds to have their voices heard in Missouri.

Tuesday night, four of the six candidates endorsed by KC Tenants Power won their races. The most notable win for the group was in the 6th district.

Lucas gained 81 percent of the votes in Platte, Clay and Kansas City.

There is a renewed push to remove two Andrew Jackson statues from the grounds of Jackson County courthouses in downtown Kansas City and Independence, Missouri.

A constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights in Missouri will move forward after a judge on Tuesday broke a standoff between two Republican officials that had halted the process.

Legislative leaders have warned Kansans to remain wary of their mail while picking it up out of their mailboxes as the investigation continues into more than 100 reports of white powder-laced letters.

A potential landfill site would have bordered 147th Street, Horridge Road, 155th Street, and Peterson Road.