A new art installation at the Wyandotte County Museum commemorates three Native American sisters who barricaded themselves in a tribal burial ground in what is now downtown Kansas City, Kansas. “Tresp...

Former Kansas City Star photographer Raymond Corey captured behind-the-scenes images and everyday rural life in the Midwest for decades. A new exhibition of his work highlights 50,000 negatives donate...

Local artists can have a hand in creating public art to accompany a planned skate park between River Market and the West Bottoms. Riders in the area hope the site becomes a hub for the local skateboar...

Mom-and-pop stores in Kansas City catering to recent immigrants are facing a sharp downturn, with sales falling since Trump took office. Owners say customers are scared and holding onto their cash.

The multi-genre vocalist and musician was known for her expansive vocal range, and was a longtime presence in the Kansas City music scene. Keller performed with the Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Ch...

Professional artist and sign maker Dave Eames says diligent journaling has helped him download and remember important moments, cringeworthy mishaps and the mundanity of life. His work has garnered mil...

The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.

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When President Trump made deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this year, grants were cancelled and programs across the country were suspended. In Kansas City, one oral histo...

As the gay rights movement began picking up steam in the 1970s, Barbara Grier co-founded the largest lesbian publishing company in the world — right from her Kansas City home. Grier was bold, controve...

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.

Buying a new band or orchestra instrument could get a lot more expensive. Kansas City business owners who import musical instruments have been hit hard by on-again, off-again tariffs with Europe and C...

Die-hard "Star Wars" fans celebrate the fourth day of May this weekend, while the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures highlights action figures from the famous movies. For one super-fan, it's a cha...

The closure of four of the six Regional Climate Centers across the U.S. occurred after funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ran out. A recent report stated that the Trump a...

The White House has announced plans to rescind funds for public broadcasting. What is the impact on KCUR and NPR?

President Trump has called on Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in funding from the public broadcasters. KCUR is one of the 1,300 locally and independently managed stations that are funded by the Corpo...

Event in Kansas City, MO by KCUR 89.3 on Monday, April 21 2025 with 138 people interested.

Roeland Park resident Evenezer Cortez Martinez was protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He sued the Trump administration after he was not allowed to reenter the country.

The Swedish painter shaped how the rest of the world viewed the hills and streams of Kansas, and the mountains of Colorado. The largest collection of his paintings, prints, and drawings is in the smal...

Missouri will hold municipal elections on April 8. Voters across the Kansas City area will weigh in on issues like investing in public safety, improving infrastructure and electing their school board ...

Saturday's rally was held in conjunction with a nationwide day of action, with nearly 1,400 similar events planned around the nation. Kansas City protesters took aim at the mass federal layoffs and fu...

With a wide range of flavors from Greek, Lebanese and Palestinian cuisines as well as other Mediterranean cultures, there's plenty of options for delicious dining at these Kansas City area restaurants...

Westwood residents voted 441 to 394 to keep the tiny park. The result puts an end to plans to sell the land to a developer for an office park and retail shops.

The gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that administers about $260 million in grants to libraries and museums, has left a local museum in the lurch.

The six architecture firms competing to reimagine Kansas City’s premier museum had three months to dream up plans that will remake its Midtown campus. A new exhibit unveils the designs and will give t...

The first time Danny Cox visited Kansas City, as a nationally touring musician, a clerk at the Muehlebach Hotel told him Black people couldn't stay there. He eventually made a home across the state li...

The Kansas City Fire Department has responded to all kinds of emergencies since 1868, but some firefighters who died doing this dangerous work have been forgotten. Ray Elder is making certain all of t...

Musicians and Fat Tuesday marchers have made their way through 18th & Vine, the Crossroads, and the Westside neighborhood for decades — rain, sleet or snow. The colorfully-dressed revelers, known as k...

But the bill passed in the Missouri House Thursday will accidentally make things worse for pregnant parties in divorce proceedings.

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The value of public media funding is likely to become a trending topic in the coming year, so KCUR has put together answers to some common questions on how public media funding works.

President Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, has been confirmed — prompting fears of possible layoffs in the bureau. Some local officials worry that a diminished FBI presence in Kansas and Mis...

Starting Monday night, a new blast of winter weather will see up to 10 inches of snow and wind chills as low as negative-30. The storm will plunge Missouri and Kansas into the freezing cold through Fr...

The tension over water for Quivira National Wildlife Refuge has lasted for decades. But recently, water users made progress toward using less groundwater in the area that impacts Quivira.

Nathan Louis Jackson’s untimely death at the age of 44 left a void in Kansas City theater. A new Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of his play “Broke-ology” could prove the writer's power to in...

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.

Watermark West Rare Bookstore has overcome challenges for 40 years, including the internet upending the book business and a drop in rare book collecting. Owner Philip McComish doesn't know what the fu...

The huge new snow sculpture can be seen on the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, not far from the museum’s iconic “Shuttlecocks.” It’s the latest cold collaboration from former Kansas Cit...

Many of Kansas City's best-regarded culinary luminaries are represented in the nominations, including The Town Company and Chewology. But the list also includes some restaurants off the beaten path.

Fatima Hodzic opened Burek and Cake just over two years ago. Since then, the tiny Bosnian bakery in the Northland has become a destination to gather over cakes, coffee, and bureks, a traditional Bosni...

The Kansas City chapter of the Dialogue Institute gifts more than 400 boxes of home-made baklava, touching around 1,000 people across the metro. Members say the gifts are a gesture of gratitude for th...

Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra....

"Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show” imagines that Scrooge left London and moved to Kansas City to seek his fortune. It’s a new spin on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale of redemption.