Almost a third of Wyandotte County's population is Hispanic or Latino. Activists have campaigned for the last 18 months for the election commissioner to voluntarily offer Spanish-language election materials.

Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a plan Tuesday that would strengthen Medicare coverage to include long-term care for seniors in their homes, tackling one of the biggest challenges in U.S. health care.

Republicans are struggling to recruit and elect women to Congress, lagging behind Democrats in ensuring women, who make up half the population, have a strong voice in the halls of power, experts on women in politics said Tuesday.

The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, is tackling political issues even as polarization burdens congregations across the country.

Republican Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe and Democratic House Leader Crystal Quade are facing off to be Missouri’s next governor, along with third-party candidates Bill Slantz and Paul Lehmann. Here’s where they stand on the major issues in Missouri,

Chuck Hagel, the 24th U.S. defense secretary and a former U.S. Senator from Nebraska, said Thursday the upcoming presidential election is going to be a defining one for foreign policy and politics at home.

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Derron Black, a former Democrat, is running as a Republican for the first time in Missouri’s 9th State Senate district. He says local Democratic leadership has failed to get his community what it needs,

With the election for Johnson County Sheriff now between Democrat Byron Roberson and Republican Doug Bedford, polarizing issues that Calvin Hayden had campaigned on — election skepticism and immigration for example — have dropped in prominence.