New funding will expand a program that shares childcare costs among employers, families and the state. But finding available ...

Missouri voters will see a list of anywhere from four to nearly a dozen judges on the ballot. How do you know whether they should be retained?

To cut costs, Kansas City Council moved to retrofit the temporary city jail built for the World Cup instead of building a new ...

Kansas City’s latest changeup in a yearslong effort to build a permanent municipal jail involves a $120 million retrofit of ...

General elections in Missouri and Kansas are on Nov. 3, and The Beacon is here to help you feel prepared as you head to the polls.

The roughly 150 fixed license plate readers are part of a network also mounted in parks and on municipal buildings, KCK ...

Readers can expect regular reporting from City Hall, a weekly newsletter about what’s happening inside city government, ...

Karrie Krause had to take out a bank loan to pay off a hospital bill from 2022. (Suzanne King/The Beacon) In December 2022, a ...

Fitzgibbon joins the ranks of nearly a dozen hospitals in Missouri that have shuttered labor and delivery services since 2010. (Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital/Facebook) For pregnant women living north ...