Julie Denesha

Whistleblower Joshua Dean, who had accused a Boeing supplier of overlooking defects in the production of the 737 MAX, has died from a "sudden illness," making him the second whistleblower to die in as many months.

"Handoff, Okmulgee, Oklahoma," from Ivan McClellan's new book "Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture"

Haylee Moulder said she paid Nick Berry of The Wolf of Roofing more than $20,000 after her home in Broken Arrow was damaged by extreme weather during the Father's Day storms in June 2023.

A world-renowned ceramic artist educated in Kansas City has made a career of injecting activism into the delicate teapots he crafts. Richard Notkin recently returned to the Kansas City Art Institute to teach a masterclass in making art with meaning.

Ivan McClellan, who grew up near 57th Street and Georgia Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, has new photobook out April 30 that documents Black rodeo culture; photo courtesy of Ivan McClellan

Earlier this month, vandals defaced the William Volker Memorial Fountain by removing the leg of a large, male figure and the arm of a fawn — a half-human, half-goat creature from Greek and Roman mythology.

A wall of portraits serve as a backdrop for tintype photographer Megan Karson, shown here in her studio in the Holsum Building, a former industrial food processing warehouse in the historic West Bottoms.

In this 2020 file photo, Rancher and businessman Bill Haw Sr. sits in his West Bottoms office in Kansas City.

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at the Art That Blows fundraiser.

After 18 months of renovations, the historic Westport home will serve again as a center for stories from the old western frontier. 'We need to tell the story of enslavement and the Native American tribes that were affected by the settlement,' one historian says.