Colorful illustrations of nursing staff, physicians and other medical staff are scattered on a backdrop of multi-colored half circles.

curiousKC | Submit A Community Letter to KC’s Health Care Workers

What do you want to share about a health care worker in your life?

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Final Push to Fund $13M Rebuild of Reconciliation Services on Troost

Editor’s note: The following story was originally published by Startland News, an online news source helping readers discover a new Kansas City shaped by entrepreneurs, startups, creatives, makers and risk-takers. Click here to read the latest stories from Startland News. Austin Barnes | Startland News Decades of dreaming are coming to an end, said Father…

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Nick Haines

Nick’s Picks | State of the Union, Mask Mandates, Ukraine Top the Week

Nick’s Picks include the State of the Union, the end of mask mandates, conflict in Ukraine, statehouse drama, sports drama and Mardi Gras.

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Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City.

A Matter of Life, Death and Faith

A surging death toll during the pandemic is driving people to their knees, in both despondency and prayer.

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19th C Water Main Break Causes 21st C Headache

By Kevin Collison Flooding caused by a burst, 127 year-old water main near 10th and Walnut has forced the Spokes Café|Cyclery to close temporarily and prompted Commerce Bank to protect a side entrance with sand bags. “It’s pretty bad,” Spokes owner Dan Walsh said. “It blew the outlet covers off the wall and our drywall…

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House Budget Chairman Cody Smith, R-Carthage.

Parson Signs $4.6B Spending Plan, House Approves Bill Targeting Medicaid Expansion

The first bill sent to Gov. Mike Parson from this year’s legislative session includes a pay raise for state employees, money to fund Medicaid through the end of the fiscal year and federal COVID-19 recovery funding for schools.

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From left to right: Hickman Mills sophomore Saathvik Kannan, MU principal investigator Kamal, Singh, and MU undergraduate Austin Spratt. They're working together at Bond Life Sciences Center in Columbia to identify new SARS-CoV-2 variants. (Credit: Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center”)

MU Professor, High Schooler and Undergraduate Mathematician Lead the Research on Variants

At MU, a veteran scientist, high schooler and undergraduate student identified 46 mutations of the omicron variant.

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Blue Sushi Making a Splash at Power & Light This Fall

By Kevin Collison Blue Sushi Sake Grill will be splashing at a new location in the Power & Light District this fall, its second operation in the metro since opening in Westwood in 2016. The fast-growing national chain that prides itself on serving sustainable seafood in a vivid, Japanese-themed, contemporary setting plans to open in…

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The Sporting Kansas City soccer team lines up and locks arms in front of the home crowd

Weekend Possibilities | Sporting KC Block Party, KC Golf Show and ‘Lotawana’ at Screenland Armour

February’s final weekend means a full slate of film, Mardi Gras fun and soccer.

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Santa Fe Trail crossing at Cimarron. The Ogallala aquifer groundwater levels in much of western Kansas started dropping in the 1950s as pumping increased, according to the Kansas Geological Survey.

‘We can’t wait 15 years’: Legislative Committee Works to Overhaul Kansas Water Policy

If Kansas is going to preserve its water resources, it has to act soon, say proponents of an overhaul to the state’s water regulation.

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