Barton is one of only seven Kansas counties to be selected for a pilot program that supports young people at risk of ...

We won’t have a new facility for years. The city can’t wait to end abuse and maltreatment in our current situation. | Opinion ...

Kansas City voters approved a sales tax extension Tuesday that will pay for construction of a controversial new city jail and other public safety capital improvements. With nearly all votes ...

Kansas City Police Headquarters sit at 1125 Locust Street on Sept. 24, 2025. Kansas City officials have said the bulk of the money generated by the quarter-cent public safety sales tax will go ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Following a KSHB 41 I-Team story that aired in late March on municipal court prisoners being released from jail early, we were contacted by a Kansas City, Missouri ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, voters said yes Tuesday to renewing a public safety sales tax that will pay for a new city jail. Sixty percent of voters were in favor of the sales tax ...

it is important that we have this tool for Kansas City and its future.” Opponents of the tax said they weren’t sure about a new jail. She said she feared it could do more harm than good.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City advocacy group is urging voters to reject the renewal of the Public Safety Sales Tax, referred to by critics as the "jail tax," in Tuesday’s election.

A police chase took place in and around Baxter Springs on Thursday. It happened in Cherokee County after police tried to stop a pickup truck in Baxter Springs.

Jefferson played teams from Fargo in both baseball and softball Friday afternoon at the Sanford Diamonds. The top-ranked Cavaliers softball team claimed a pair of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Opposers to a new municipal jail rallied on Sunday in support of a no vote on Question 1 in Tuesday’s election. “Unless we are looking at the actual root problem of these ...