KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City-area companies are already feeling the ripple effects of the United Auto Workers strike. Challenge Manufacturing supplies the GM Fairfax plant with the floor pans for their Chevy Malibus. One of their workers told FOX4 on Thursday she and dozens of others were temporarily laid off the exact same day the … Read more
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The Kansas Department of Revenue have seized the assets of a Johnson County business for not paying sales tax. KDOR agents, along with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, executed tax warrants on Wednesday and seized the assets of Metcalf Antique Mall in Overland Park for not paying sales tax totaling $62,866.38. … Read more
An unknown group last month solicited Clay County voters’ opinions on the Kansas City Royals’ planned new baseball stadium. Now, someone else wants Jackson County to weigh in, too. Some Jackson County residents recently received survey questions about the $2 billion-plus project, as well as a potential 40-year extension of the county’s existing three-eighths-cent sales tax at the … Read more
OLATHE, Kan. — Another Patrick Mahomes-owned Whataburger location is slated to open soon in Johnson County. Franchise KMO Burger, which Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has invested in, aims to open its newest location in Olathe, near 135th Street and Black Bob Road, in November. Starlight Theatre announces 2024 Broadway series This will be the … Read more
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals say it’s going to take a little longer to select the site for their new stadium. The Royals originally planned to announce the site for the $2 billion ballpark district in September, choosing between Clay County and Jackson County. PHOTOS: Royals release new renderings of proposed $2B … Read more
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The General Motors plant in Kansas City, Kansas, has gone idle Wednesday, leaving thousands without work amid the United Auto Workers strike. The GM Fairfax plant wasn’t called to strike last week, but its workers have still been impacted. About 2,000 UAW members work at the Fairfax plant. UAW threatens to expand … Read more
Adoption of Generative AI by European organizations is growing and will continue to grow in 2023 and beyond. According to IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 5, 20% of European organizations have already made significant investments in Generative AI, while an additional 58% say they are closely looking at the business opportunities … Read more
OLIVETTE, Mo. – If you didn’t know better, it might seem like this more than 48,000-square-foot warehouse in Olivette is just another big building with a fresh paint job and not the new home of a company moving here from New York. “I always like fixing things up. I’m a tinkerer. I’m an inventor, so … Read more
Plans are in the works to bring 550 new apartments to north Olathe. Developer FSDA LLC wants the city to rezone roughly 30 acres located just north of College Boulevard and east of Kansas Highway 7 from an industrial district to a medium density multifamily housing district. VIDEO: New Three Light apartment tower opens in … Read more
A new report identifies the Kansas City metro as one of the 11 most racially segregated hospital markets in America. The Lown Institute, a Brookline, Massachusetts-based nonpartisan health care think tank, found that these 11 metros had the highest proportion of the most and least inclusive hospitals (percentage of outliers shown in parentheses): New Orleans (50%) … Read more