Government
Freshly minted lawmaker ignites long-sought audit of powerful Kansas City-area governmentFrustrated residents of the combined Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, government have sought accountability for its use of tax money for many of the years since the two entities merged… Read More
Opinion
America’s greatest danger has been post-9/11: We’re now doing to ourselves what the terrorists could notThe only thing more cataclysmic to America than the 9/11 attacks has been the stunning erosion of patriotism and kinship we’ve seen in the quarter-century since the mournful cleanup. Read More
Courts
Murder charge dismissed against Kansas deputy in jail death investigators long ago determined was no crimeA judge dismissed a murder-or-manslaughter charge against a Wyandotte County, Kansas, deputy Thursday in the 2025 death of a combative and medically compromised jail inmate. Heartlander News … Read More
Courts
‘They want to silence me’: Kansas residents sued by town over petition drive to ban data centersA small town in Kansas is suing several petition organizers who say the city’s lawsuit is largely an attempt to muzzle them and intimidate future citizen activists. Edgerton,… Read More
Kansas City
Kansas City Mayor Lucas denies auditing KC Star’s coverage of his administrationKansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is alleged to have ordered an audit of the local daily newspaper’s coverage of his administration, though he denies the charge in the face of emails suggesting… Read More