City Business

Named Douglass Cemetery and sometimes called Grange, this landlocked cemetery just northeast of 92nd Street and Charlotte is being threatened by development.

Resolution 260887 declares the City Council’s intent to preserve Blue River Road as a “historic automobile roadway” and initiates a 60-day pause on the plan to convert a portion into a trail.

Early voting for the Nov. 3 midterm elections already has started in Missouri, and voters in south KC and throughout Missouri have important decisions to make.

Events such as the NEKCHS Fall Homes Tour give people the chance to step inside historic homes that usually remain behind a locked door.

South KCMO residents in favor of repairing and reopening the street should contact the city manager’s office and their  5th and 6th district city council members.

“I hope that this hospital will never be limited to any class or condition; that the sick of every kind will be admitted, white and colored, adults and children…”

“When they burned my store, there was nothing left for me to do but go somewhere else and start again.”

Downtown Belton will embrace the locomotive era from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19.

Kansas City’s assistant city manager and the marketing administrator for Jackson County’s Community Backed Anti-Crime Tax (COMBAT) Commission were among speakers at Monday’s meeting of the South KC Alliance at KCPD South Patrol.

There are numerous accounts of the acts of violence that plagued the western border from

South Kansas City officials criticized the city’s spending before voting “no” on the Roy Blunt Luminary Park’s first phase of construction on Thursday.

“McManus is well regarded as a thoughtful policymaker rather than a ladder-climbing politician.”

5th District-at-Large City Councilman Darrell Curls said he is aware of three other groups interested in redeveloping the property, primarily for business purposes.  

 A street and a park are left as simple reminders of the lives who cultivated the land before us.

During Chief Graves’ relatively brief tenure as chief, as of August 10 in recent years, homicides have gone down significantly from 123 year-to-date homicides in 2023 to only 77 this year.