The CDC includes Kansas on its high activity list - one of the many states with the most ER visits for respiratory illnesses ranging from the common cold, to covid, to the flu and respiratory syncytial virus or RSV.

When broken down by state, most of the country is experiencing elevated respiratory illness, including a few states with “very high” ratings that act as national hotspots, CDC data shows.

A number of states are seeing a spike in hospital visits caused by respiratory illnesses as we enter the New Year.

Kansas City has appeared on national and international travel rankings published by CNN, Time Magazine, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The Missouri city joined two other American locales on the list: Hawaii and Tucson, Arizona. Here are the other destinations on the BBC’s 25 places to travel in 2025 list:

We have a well-established plan for protecting those that are out and about on playoff game days,” said Capt. Jacob Becchina, a Kansas City Police spokesperson.

Dangerous wind chills are expected in Kansas City on Sunday through Tuesday, bottoming out between -10 and -20 degrees each morning.

On cold winter nights like the ones the Kansas City area has experienced recently, extreme street outreach groups are out with those with nowhere to go.

One of Kansas City's largest developments in 2025 is well underway in the Northland - the Google data center campus.

KC Tenants say they want Healthy Homes to enforce consequences for landlords who fail to address health code violations. Kansas City Health Department representatives say all documented issues at Quality Hill Towers were resolved,

The Wichita City Council and Sedgwick County Commission will each discuss funding for testing those affected by the contamination plume at 29th and Grove.

Saturday's highs will only reach the low 20s, with single-digit wind chills throughout the day. This means that if you're going to the Kansas City Chiefs playoff game against the Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium, you'll need to bundle up.