If you haven’t heard by now, the Kansas City Chiefs are just days away from making history. Could the Chiefs be the first team to win three back-to-back Super Bowls? The NFL’s biggest game is Sunday ...

Fran Marion lights up when she talks about her kids. “She’s artistic,” Marion said about her daughter. “She has gifts in photography.” Marion’s daughter watched her work tirelessly to keep the family ...

Kenneth Ford is a retired Kansas City ironworker. He’s in his late 60s. And he’s Black. But he’s also a Freedman. In recent years he’s been trying hard through the Descendant Freedmen Alliance of ...

A strategic property is for sale in the East Crossroads, a one-acre site at 18th and Holmes that would be well-located should the Royals get their wish to build their ballpark downtown. The former ...

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Tameko Davison’s children were well into the routine of a school year when turmoil intervened in the form of an eviction notice. Davison fell behind on payments, and the gas was shut off to her ...

Flatland sat down with Gina Chiala, executive director and attorney for the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom, to see what advice she offers to rental tenants in Kansas City as part of Public ...

The one-woman Frenchification of the angled intersection where Westport Road meets Main Street has an enticing new aroma, this one drifting from The Bakery, Enchanté. Heather White opened her French ...

Three generations. Three different possibly ways to answer the question, “Are things getting better for Latinos in America?” In this week’s visit with the Caudillo family, Velia Salazar, the family ...

The City Council approved an affordable housing set-aside mandate for projects receiving tax incentives Thursday, but also offered an olive branch to developers who warn it could sabotage further ...

Halfway between Manhattan, Kan., and Columbia, Mo., Kansas City is smack in the middle of what the Kansas City Area Development Council calls the Animal Health Corridor. According to the council, the ...

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