Cooking classes are a fun, affordable and enriching way to gain a new skill, eat well and even meet new people. Thankfully, the Kansas City area is teeming with culinary opportunities for at-home chefs, no matter your level of expertise.

After a months-long search, the local nonprofit announced this week that it had found a commercial space to hold this year’s holiday shop for low-income Johnson Countians.

Despite a federal lawsuit, callers to Missouri's hotline handling SNAP benefits waited on hold an average of an hour and a half in August before being connected to agents.

The holiday season already has enough stress, and inflation is only adding more. We put together a list of resources if you find yourself in need of assistance, or if you're in a position to help out.

Across the Kansas City metro, pinball machines are ringing to life again in arcades, bars and home basements — a burst of nostalgia made even more powerful by the pandemic.

Andrew Bailey, who has served as general counsel for Gov. Mike Parson for the last year, will replace Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who was elected to the U.S. Senate earlier this month. But his appointment has not been greeted by universal support among Republicans.

In Missouri, hospital doctors told a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks that "current Missouri law supersedes our medical judgment" and so she could not receive an abortion procedure even though she was at risk of infection. That hospital is now under investigation for violating a federal law that requires doctors to treat and stabilize patients during a medical emergency.

After a string of disappointing seasons — by Gorilla standards, anyway — the Pittsburg State football faithful have found confidence again.

Chapter 6: Untouchable. Residents of Kansas City, Kansas, had been sounding alarms about detective Roger Golubski and corruption in the police department for decades. But city leaders did nothing, and Golubski retired in peace while the families of his victims mourned. It wasn’t until a year after KCUR started working on this podcast that the FBI finally arrested Golubski — on just a fraction of his alleged crimes. What does justice even look like after all this time?