For 101 years, Nelson's Old Riverton Store has stood along Route 66. It predates the Mother Road itself, and stepping inside ...

On both sides of the state line, Kansas City leaders are working to clean up lead contamination of vacant lots to improve ...

In the 1930s, studios set up distribution hubs near 17th and 18th and Wyandotte, an area known as “Film Row.” ...

Thousands of travelers from across the globe are journeying down Route 66 this year to experience a piece of American history ...

Bluffs up to 120 feet tall once hugged the Missouri River by Kansas City, making it difficult to traverse the landscape and expand the growing town. So in the mid-1800s, a Catholic priest named Father ...

When soccer fans from around the world arrive in Kansas City for the FIFA World Cup in June 2026, they’ll find a city ready ...

Three markers on the Springfield-Greene County African-American Heritage Trail are affiliated with Route 66. The goal is to ...

Union Pacific Railroad has released the eastern extent of the historic “Big Boy” steam locomotive, including its stops in ...

Nearly a century after Bonnie and Clyde’s deadly 1933 shootout in Joplin, Missouri, the site and museum artifacts continue to ...

The Warren Street Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1898 by Black Union soldiers and formerly enslaved people. It was ...

The traveling “Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People’s Republic of China” opened up new worlds in the heartland. | ...