KSHB 41 reporter Olivia Acree covers portions of Johnson County, Kansas. Share your story idea with Olivia. Libraries across the Kansas City metro are launching summer reading programs to help prevent ...

Decades of digital photos are now open to all, and this week, you can hear Star journalists talk about how it all came ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Kansas City Public Library’s Books-to-Go Program. The program provides nearly 7,000 books to nearly 4,500 children per month in the ...

Heidi Pitre’s series merges literature, nostalgia, and history, featuring pen-and-ink drawings on about 160 vintage library checkout cards. Interest in the pieces has expanded, but her supply of ...

Armed with a tape recorder, Kansas City librarian Irene Ruiz captured the evolving history of the Westside and made the library a more welcoming place for the Mexican immigrants and Latinos who lived ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Public ...

Since 2018, The Kansas City Star and Kansas City Public Library have been answering readers’ questions and shedding light on local history through the What’s Your KCQ? project. Now it’s won an award.

Photos of Martin Luther King Jr. Letters from Harry Truman. Images of Henry Perry, the father of Kansas City barbecue. These documents and more will be available for public viewing in the next couple ...

KTWU I've Got Issues is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

Philadelphia library fans have until Friday to help Free Library of Philadelphia win a friendly competition against rival Kansas City Public Library in the Library Love Competition. While both cities ...

And yet, despite her claim to fame as the first African American woman to produce a film, almost nothing is known of Souders’ ...