The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council will adopt its new budget on Thursday. The public can weigh in and suggest changes to ...

The vote has frustrated local activists, who have long fought to bring Kansas City back in control of its own police ...

The state senator flatly denied the allegations in a text message and phone call with The Star, saying she has never ...

As the Post-Dispatch’s Jack Suntrup reports, the measure now moving through the Legislature would create a six-member state ...

The Kansas City Police Department is asking the public for help in locating a suspect considered to be armed and dangerous.

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe says he plans to sign a bill that would allow the state to re-take control of the St. Louis ...

Placing the St. Louis Police Department under a state-appointed board has been a priority for Gov. Mike Kehoe. The Republican ...

Legislation putting control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in the hands of a state board is on its way to ...

Homicides peaked in St. Louis and Kansas City in 2020 but have since dropped. Both cities also saw upticks in homicides in the early 1990s when both police agencies were under state control.

Missouri voters approved a petition in 2012 returning the department to local control but lawmakers have rejected reports ...