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Jordan Bunnell happily talked Thursday about the things she loves: reading the Baby-Sitters Club books, listening to country-pop singer Taylor Swift and being with her quarter horse, Dollar. A stack of the popular pre-teen books and a Swift compact disc were close to Jordan’s bed at Children’s Mercy Hospital, where the 12-year-old is awaiting a liver transplant.Read More

Construction of a new Troost Avenue bridge over Brush Creek is being pushed back again, ironically because it is getting federal stimulus dollars. The project was to be put out for bids this spring. But the infusion of $13 million in federal money required the city to meet new conditions, forcing the bidding to be delayed until fall.Read More

Budget turmoil could cost Wyandotte County residents their one direct transit connection to Johnson County. Planners at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority this week explained a proposal for cutting service on two of the six ATA routes serving Wyandotte County.Read More

LAWRENCE | The Kansas Bioscience Authority is setting aside $1 million to fight any challenges to a proposed biosecurity laboratory in Manhattan. The authority’s operating plan for 2010 designates $1 million of its $75.5 million budget to help ensure that the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility is built on the Kansas State University campus.Read More

The Kansas City Council voted Thursday to pay $550,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit, ending a year of political anguish and turmoil. Just one day before jury selection was to begin, the council approved paying former mayoral aide Ruth Bates to drop all her claims against the city and Mayor Mark Funkhouser.Read More

Lots going on downtown these days. But nine summers ago, KC’s central business district was not happening.Read More

Kansas highway officials will take an initial step toward converting Kansas 7 to a freeway by building a Shawnee interchange that’s part of a new construction plan announced Thursday. With money for new construction starting to run thin, the Kansas Department of Transportation announced a three-year plan that calls for spending $918 million on projects from 2010 through 2012.Read More

For more than a year, City Hall has been embroiled over claims of discrimination in the mayor&rsquo;s office. Here is a timeline: <strong>May 2007</strong>Read More

A Missouri senator Thursday announced a hearing on a state agency&rsquo;s refusal to immediately release a report about high levels of E. coli at the Lake of the Ozarks. Sen. Brad Lager, a Savannah Republican and chairman of the Senate standing committee on environment, said he would begin a thorough review of why the Missouri Department of Natural Resources did not release the report for ...Read More