A rendering of a potential Kansas City Chiefs domed stadium in Kansas.

Kansas Bill Offers Bonding to Cover 75% of Cost to Build Chiefs, Royals Stadiums

Kansas lawmakers will gather Monday to consider legislation that could finance up to 75% of the cost of new stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals.

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"Kansas City Week in Review" host Nick Haines.

Nick’s Picks | Juneteenth, Stadium Drama and Summer Solstice

A busy week in Kansas City includes more stadium drama for the Chiefs and Royals, Juneteenth and the summer solstice. Here’s your agenda.

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A man holds a brain used for research.

Why You Might Want to Donate Your Brain to Science

Organ donor programs do not include brains, creating a tissue shortage that impedes research into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and concussions.

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Sprinklers irrigate a field in Hamilton County, Kansas, where some farmers have petitioned to be removed from a local groundwater management district. State lawmakers are pressuring the district to do more to conserve water in the Ogallala Aquifer.

‘Time for a Reckoning.’ Kansas Farmers Brace for Water Cuts to Save Ogallala Aquifer

After decades of local inaction, Kansas lawmakers are pushing for big changes in irrigation to conserve water and save the Ogallala Aquifer.

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crowd of people in red t-shirts with red balloons at a memorial vigil.

Kansas City Launches New Effort to Counter Gun Violence

Kansas City has launched a “focused deterrence” program, named SAVE KC, that engages potential victims or perpetrators of gun violence before it happens.

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A dairy cow in a pen at Be Whole Again Farm in Excelsior Springs.

Bird Flu has Hit Cows in Kansas and Sparked Precautions in Missouri. Here’s What that means for You

Bird flu has hit cows in Kansas and sparked precautions in Missouri. Scientists say the more it spreads, the more chances it has to become a problem for people.

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The womyn of the newly formed Womontown march in the 1989 Kansas City Pride Parade.

Honoring Womontown: Kansas City’s Intentional Lesbian Community

The Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America will install a historic marker honoring Womontown on Thursday, June 13, at 27th Terrace and Charlotte Street.

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A water tower in Guymon, Oklahoma, which relies on the Ogallala Aquifer for drinking water.

Parched in the Panhandle: Town Frets About Water

How Seaboard Foods rebuilt the Oklahoma panhandle’s economy, which ushered in a new era of groundwater depletion from the Ogallala Aquifer.

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"Kansas City Week in Review" host Nick Haines.

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

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.

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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

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?

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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 

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

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes

Kansas Lawmakers to Target Chiefs During Special Session

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

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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

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.

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Evergy's Lawrence Energy Center.

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

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. 

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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

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

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