Kansas City

Kansas City has welcomed thousands of visitors as the metro enters its second week of the World Cup. But as international crowds come in, many local shop owners feel they're taking a backseat. Some small businesses say the economic boost is not evenly distributed.

Those big orange cans at FIFA Fan Festival? A Kansas City nonprofit put them there to help deal with organic waste from the massive sporting event.

According to GasBuddy, the average price of regular gasoline in Missouri fell 10 cents per gallon during the past week to $3.76 a gallon. Prices are now 44 cents lower than a month ago, though they remain 92 cents higher than they were a year ago.

For World Cup fans across the Midwest, seeing some of the top athletes in the world is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Nebraskan Vanessa Emlich wasn't going to miss her chance.

Safe House Projects' new app, Simply Report, is now available on all Apple and Android devices in Missouri.

June 1 marked the end of Kansas City Area Transportation Authority's free bus fare policy, the first in the country when it was implemented in 2020. Some riders are worried about how bus fare will affect their budget.

Up and down the Independence Avenue corridor, the 131 mostly immigrant- and refugee-owned businesses are checking their websites and online reviews, spiffing up their social media profiles, and hiring staff — all in the hopes of getting new visitors for the World Cup.

The Royals have pitched a $1.9 billion stadium. That's twice as expensive as Atlanta's Truist Park and quadruple Denver's Coors Field. But it's not clear what's driving up the cost.

An influx of visitors from countries where tipping isn't a cultural norm could mean a pay cut for some Kansas City hospitality workers. Several restaurants are adding auto-gratuity to be safe, but many in hotspots like Westport and Power & Light are waiting to see what happens.

Bluffs up to 120 feet tall once hugged the Missouri River by Kansas City, making it difficult to traverse the landscape and expand the growing town. So in the mid-1800s, a Catholic priest named Father Bernard Donnelly recruited hundreds of Irish immigrants for a dangerous but critical task: digging streets for the city from rocks and mud.