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When Sheila Albers couldn't get answers to questions she had after her 17-year-old son was shot and killed by an Overland Park police officer, she didn't give up. Her story shows how everyday people can leverage public records to shape communities for the better.

When Judge Isaac Franklin Bradley Sr. was born in Saline County, Missouri, he was considered property. By the time he died, his name had been etched next to the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois as a civil rights leader, lawyer, judge and entrepreneur.

Write your thank you letter to or share a story about a health care worker for curiousKC's new series, Community Letters.

The Kansas Craft Brewers Exposition, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic, returns to Lawrence on March 12.

A surging death toll during the pandemic is driving people to their knees, in both despondency and prayer.

Learn what they've worked on and how they identified 46 mutations of the Omicron variant.

The first bill sent to Gov. Mike Parson from this year’s legislative session includes a pay raise for state employees, money to fund Medicaid through the end of the fiscal year and federal COVID-19 recovery funding for schools.

If Kansas is going to preserve its water resources, it has to act soon, say proponents of an overhaul to the state’s water regulation.

Rural Missouri hopes to have reliable Wi-Fi soon, but right now, folks are hardly connected.

Students from three local schools are canvassing voters to gauge political support for local control of the Kansas City Police Department.