The firefighters’ contract had expired three years ago, and this week firefighters voted to accept new terms. Then Unified Government commissioners approved the pact Thursday night.
A woman from the Congo, by way of camps in Rwanda and Tanzania, expresses concerns about President Donald Trump’s draft executive order to clamp down on refugees. She’s joined by leaders of Kansas City agencies that resettle refugees.
The Kansas City Council declined Thursday to move a minimum wage ballot measure forward on its agenda in order to get it on the April ballot. Petitioners may still try to seek a court order mandating the April vote.
President Donald Trump triggered a diplomatic clash and a fresh fight over trade Thursday as the White House proposed a 20 percent tax on imports from the key U.S. ally and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto abruptly scrapped next week’s trip to Washington.
Rep. Willie Dove, R-Bonner Springs, acknowledged that he removed a loaded .380 handgun from his ankle during a meeting of the House Education Committee, placed it in his desk and left the room without retrieving it. A secretary found the weapon.
The contractual agreement between Kansas City International Airport and its airlines has been extended for another three years, through April 30, 2020. The City Council on Thursday approved the extension to keep the airport on an even keel. If the community reaches consensus before then on airport improvements, the lease terms can be terminated and rewritten.
An exemption to keep handguns off campus is set to expire on July 1. A new bill would indefinitely exempt Kansas colleges from having to allow concealed weapons on campus.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don't want to stick around for the Trump era.
Kansas City launched an interactive market value analysis map that leaders hope will bring public and private forces together to make wiser investments in improving community development.
The former head of President Donald Trump's transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he expects the new administration to seek significant budget and staff cuts.
Protests in Kansas City and around the country fired up again in advance of the scheduled Feb. 7 Senate confirmation hearing of secretary of labor nominee Andy Puzder.
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Stephen Bannon told The New York Times.
President Donald Trump took a significant step toward carrying out one of his signature -- and most controversial - campaign promises to build a wall along the southwest border and toughen the U.S. immigration system.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a planned Tuesday meeting with President Donald J. Trump on Thursday, signaling a remarkable souring of relations between Washington and one of its most important international partners just days into the new administration.
President Donald Trump has called for a “voter fraud” investigation, including a look at how many people are registered in multiple states, which is neither illegal nor uncommon.
While Kansas has been a right-to-work state since the late 1950s, Missourians have resisted adopting laws allowing employees at union work sites to forgo paying their monthly dues.
Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday that he rejects the decision by President Donald Trump to build a border wall and repeated that his country would not pay for it.
President Donald Trump talks about the cancelled meeting between him and Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto during his address at the Republican Policy Retreat in Philadelphia.
Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday that he rejects the decision by President Donald Trump to build a border wall and repeated that his country would not pay for it.
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