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The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it's been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.

The No. 1 seeded Jayhawks are led by senior guard Ochai Agbaji, who joins a long list of Kansas City-area natives to play or coach in the Final Four with KU.

College basketball’s biggest weekend (featuring KU), beers and man’s best friend and the beloved “Jesus Christ Superstar” on stage at the Kauffman Center make for a full weekend in and around Kansas City.

For towns with only a few hundred residents, keeping tap water clean and safe can pose a crippling expense. The predicament is likely to become more common in western Kansas as farm chemicals seep into dwindling water supplies.

Two dozen congressional Democrats are calling for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, following revelations his wife communicated with the Trump White House about overturning the election.

The process of gathering community input to replace Kansas City Police Department Chief Rick Smith is being taken up by the Urban League and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

Martin City Brewing Co. has announced plans to open a new location in the Lenexa City Center.

The curiousKC team recounts the closure of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish, located in the Westside neighborhood of Kansas City, and its consolidation with nearby Sacred Heart.

Reporter, host and engagement editor Vicky Diaz-Camacho is among 13 journalists named in a national Higher Education Fellowship.

Intentional communities — many rooted in a religious tradition, some not — bring together people with similar ideas about how they want to live and the values required to live in that way.