If you haven’t heard by now, the Kansas City Chiefs are just days away from making history. Could the Chiefs be the first team to win three back-to-back Super Bowls? The NFL’s biggest game is Sunday ...

Fran Marion lights up when she talks about her kids. “She’s artistic,” Marion said about her daughter. “She has gifts in photography.” Marion’s daughter watched her work tirelessly to keep the family ...

Kenneth Ford is a retired Kansas City ironworker. He’s in his late 60s. And he’s Black. But he’s also a Freedman. In recent years he’s been trying hard through the Descendant Freedmen Alliance of ...

A strategic property is for sale in the East Crossroads, a one-acre site at 18th and Holmes that would be well-located should the Royals get their wish to build their ballpark downtown. The former ...

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The one-woman Frenchification of the angled intersection where Westport Road meets Main Street has an enticing new aroma, this one drifting from The Bakery, Enchanté. Heather White opened her French ...

Flatland sat down with Gina Chiala, executive director and attorney for the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom, to see what advice she offers to rental tenants in Kansas City as part of Public ...

Three generations. Three different possibly ways to answer the question, “Are things getting better for Latinos in America?” In this week’s visit with the Caudillo family, Velia Salazar, the family ...

Halfway between Manhattan, Kan., and Columbia, Mo., Kansas City is smack in the middle of what the Kansas City Area Development Council calls the Animal Health Corridor. According to the council, the ...

This week, many Kansas Citians will finally be able to unload their New Year’s Eve party trash. Last week, several cities including Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, canceled garbage ...

The Chiefs are officially heading to the Super Bowl. Will that be the only story Kansas Citians now care about? Here are some other trends and news developments you may want to be aware of in a week ...

The state of Kansas is yet to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. For anyone needing to brush up on U.S. history, the 21st Amendment took effect Dec. 5, 1933, when Utah became the 36th ...