The Kansas City Star

Head west deep into Kansas. Or north far into Missouri. Exit the interstate and take a look around. What's missing? Increasingly, the answer is: People. And by extension, economic development...

Slightly more than half of all workers use a computer at work, the U.S. Department of Labor reported last week. Among those 72.3 million computer users, about 40 percent connect...

Days before one of the cases was set to go to trial, the parties in the civil lawsuits over Robert Courtney's cancer-drug dilution scheme met in mediation Monday. The session...

Al Hanson, Missouri's surprise Republican nominee for state auditor, didn't feel much like talking the morning after his upset victory over the state GOP establishment. "I'm really not that interested...

God save us, in these times of fear and loathing, from that hand-wringing scribbler who first sold Americans on their "right to know." Oh, I understand why he did it....

Many employers are happy to read of mass layoffs. They're not gloating over competitors' misfortunes. They're hoping some of the laid-off workers--the good ones--will come to them. One unpleasant reality...

Richard and Michele Hinkle know that describing the inner workings of the 30-year mortgage on their new south Kansas City home can be tricky. The Hinkles took out the mortgage...

No empathy. No speed. No guts. That's why most managers will never make it to the top ranks of leadership. At least that's what the current leaders themselves say. According...

By now, every soldier in the U.S. Army was supposed to be wearing a new black beret, thanks to rush order contracts given to mostly foreign manufacturers. But the Army's...

Sometimes a job falls in your lap. Other times you have to work at it. What with high school and college graduations, an uptick in company layoffs and a lot...