Election Day is Tuesday, April 8 for the Kansas City school and special election and other Missouri elections. Polling ...

Kansas City, Missouri, voters said yes Tuesday to renewing a public safety sales tax that will pay for a new city jail.

Opposers to a new municipal jail rallied on Sunday in support of a no vote on Question 1 in Tuesday’s election.

Kansas City officials have said the bulk of the money generated by the quarter-cent public safety sales tax will go toward a ...

The man accused of breaking into a Kansas City wine bar over the weekend and stealing three bottles of liquor now faces more ...

The city plans to build its new jail in eastern Jackson County, next to the site of the ... Currently, the city sends people to jails in Vernon County and Johnson County, Missouri. The Vernon County ...

The campaign pitted those who felt a new city jail was unnecessary against those who said incarceration is essential to control crime.

Following a KSHB 41 I-Team story that aired in late March on municipal court prisoners being released from jail early, we were contacted by a Kansas City, Missouri, mother.

Jackson County has entered a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), allowing local deputies to play a larger role in federal immigration enforcement—inside the jail.

An Oran man is behind bars after authorities say he was caught trying to steal from a home in Scott County on Saturday, April ...