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Homeless in Kansas? Here’s how you can still vote

Voters enter the Argentine Community Center in Kansas City, Kansas to cast their ballots.

Being homeless in Kansas City, Kansas, comes with its own set of challenges. Wyandotte County has no permanent emergency shelters. And it has notably fewer resources and less funding available for homeless services than the Missouri side of the Kansas City area. Yet several agencies in that city and Wichita can help homeless people with […]

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Air conditioning is coming to some Missouri prisons. But it will take years and cost millions

One Missouri prison had funding granted in 2023 for air conditioning to be installed. But the project isn’t estimated to be completed until January 2026.

Missouri lawmakers took a step toward improving conditions in some Missouri prisons last year by setting aside millions to install air conditioning in one of the state’s 17 prisons. That cooler air is still a year and a half away. That decision came as global temperatures broke summertime heat records. Prisoner rights advocates celebrated the […]

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The fastest-ever climb of the Grand Teton, a record lost and a trails debate

Michelino Sunseri climbed the mountain and returned to the trailhead in under three hours, achieving what he thought was the new fastest known time. But after discovering he cut at least one switchback, arbiters with the tracking organization rejected the record.

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