News & Issues

Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.

"Kansas City Week in Review" host Nick Haines.

Nick’s Picks | Kansas Makes a Play for Chiefs and Royals

By Nick Haines | June 10, 2024

This week’s news in Kansas City includes the latest on stadiums for the Chiefs and Royals, more woes for the Country Club Plaza and an update on Buc-ee’s.

Petitioners with Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages unload dozens of boxes of signatures to deliver to the Secretary of State.

Boone County Becomes Focus of Missouri Initiative Petition Campaigns Following Redistricting

By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent | June 7, 2024

The 2022 Missouri congressional map split Boone County in half. Will it make a difference in the effort to get abortion on the ballot in November?

A crowd of people gather in the background of an image, taken down a row of boxes, low to the ground. The boxes are full of yellow and red tomatoes and read "Missouri Grown" and "Fresh Missouri Produce"

Do We Have a Bid? Auctions Sell Produce by the Lot

By Cami Koons | June 6, 2024

Produce auctions in Missouri and Kansas allow wholesale buyers to shop local, offering a key link in the food distribution chain.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes

Kansas Lawmakers to Target Chiefs During Special Session

By Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector | June 5, 2024

Kansas lawmakers are pushing to discuss legislation to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri during an upcoming special session beginning June 18.

President Joe Biden, left, speaks about an executive order in the East Room at the White House.

Border Issue Looms Over Cambio Center Conference in KC

By Mary Sanchez | June 5, 2024

The Cambio de Colores Conference convenes in Kansas City this week in the wake of President Joe Biden’s new executive order capping asylum seekers.

Report: Rural America Produces Greenhouse Gasses on Behalf of Urban and Suburban Areas

By Claire Carlson, The Daily Yonder | June 4, 2024

At least 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from rural America, but they’re mostly used to produce energy and food for urban and suburban areas.

Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch.

Insects Don’t Get Love Like Other Animals. But Kansas Can’t Survive Without Them

By Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Kansas News Service | June 3, 2024

Scientists are trying to figure out why insects are struggling, what it means for ecosystems and how it will ultimately affect people.

Nick’s Picks | Hereford House Case, Jackson County Property Taxes

By Nick Haines | June 3, 2024

This week’s top news in Kansas City includes the Hereford House food contamination case and the Jackson County property tax assessment controversy.

David Friesen, founder and head beekeeper of Bee KC, checks on bees that will be added to the hives at Tom's Town.

Nurturing the Sweet Nectar of Urban Beekeeping

By Joyce Smith | May 30, 2024

Kansas City businesses seeking locally sourced honey are embracing urban beekeeping. Meet some who seek to shorten the food chain and support the environment.