Mona Cliff says she was “kind of blown out of the water“ when she heard her art was selected to adorn a wall of the new $1.5 billion Kansas City airport, not just because the competition was so stiff — fewer than 2% of the 1,900 artists who applied were chosen — but also because the ...

Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon — a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters. The vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech already is available for anyone 12 ...

LMH Health has reported the death of another COVID patient, but the county is starting to see signs of a slowdown in cases of the virus. Information about the death, which the hospital said occurred on Sunday, was scant. The death didn’t show up on the latest fatality county compiled by ...

After about a year of owning their home at 645 Ohio St., Jon and Barb Heeb discovered a crawl space beneath the property. “I started going through this tiny little opening on the north wall and came across what looked like a brick dome,” Jon says. “It took me two hours to dig a trench so ...

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by ...

A longtime Douglas County lawmaker recently received one of the top national awards from the U.S. electricity industry. Tom Sloan, who served 24 years in the Kansas House of Representatives as a member of the Douglas County delegation, received last week the Jan Brinch Award for Collaboration ...