The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G. Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face off in the annu...

Last year’s Jackson County Spelling bee delivered an unforgettable duel between two finalists — one a fifth-grader, the other a seventh-grader — th...

The KC Keepers Chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance and Plaza Branch Teen Services Cordially Invite You to the Yule Ball, a Harry Pot...

Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...

After spending the past two weeks as local and national celebrities — saluted on the editorial page of The Kansas City Star and celebra...

You'll enjoy this light-hearted romp through deceit, larceny and murder as one of the eight murder suspects in our live "Clue" game. We'll enjoy s...

One of the staples of Kansas City’s Westside community, the Irene H. Ruiz Branch of the Kansas City Public Library c...