Laura Ziegler

LaTasha Jacob and Carl Smart come from different backgrounds and have different ideas about why Kansas City’s homicide rate is so high. But they plan to work together in Jefferson City to try to persuade pro-gun lawmakers to actually consider solutions such as better childcare, nutrition and education.

LaTasha Jacob and Carl Smart come from different backgrounds and have different ideas about why Kansas City’s homicide rate is so high. But they plan to work together in Jefferson City to try to persuade pro-gun lawmakers to actually consider solutions such as better childcare, nutrition and education.

Kids around the metro are returning to class after the holiday break — but the new semester has some familiar issues kicking around. Staffing issues in schools, fights over curriculums and controversial mascots were some of the top stories in 2022, and those continued debates are setting the tone for the year ahead.

KCUR editors discuss their approach to the station’s political coverage during the 2022 midterm election.

With almost 900 kids in foster care and just 19 social workers, Jackson County’s Children’s Division is short hundreds of workers and has the worst case-overload problem in the state.

More residents of northeast Kansas City, Kansas, are seeing the connection between the factories in their neighborhoods and their own health problems. As one activist puts it, “People see their lives are getting harder and that alone is evidence that they want to do something about it.”

The Salvation Choir, a Congolese Rumba band based in the historic Northeast, is creating a community for Tanzanian refugees through song and dance. Plus, why bass virtuoso left the East Coast for the West Bottoms.

Transit officials say they'll return to full capacity starting June 1, after more than a year of taking half their normal riders. But you'll still have to mask-up.

Residents who lived around the historic Quindaro ruins in Kansas City, Kansas, were driving to the corner of 29th and Sewell on Nov. 19, getting out of…

Dena Duffin, 53, pulls her teenage son close as she looks into the trailer stuffed with tables, tubs of housewares and whatever else they were able to…