As our semiquincentennial year progresses, we can look back at 250 years ago this month and remember a brief but nonetheless ...

Among the consequences of the rise and fall of empires in the last couple of centuries has been the formation, in the territories they formerly governed, of the political entities we call nations; ...

Eighth-grade teacher Caleb Pitts greets his students on the first day of school at Nowlin Middle School in Independence in 2022, the last year before the district switched to a four-day week. Emily ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - The Independence School District announced Tuesday who it will appoint as its superintendent. Dr. Vickie Murillo, who has nearly 40 years of experience in education, will be ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Some rivalries fizzle and fade. Others become ordinary and predictable. The boys wrestling rivalry ...

How the justices rule in the case between President Trump and the Federal Reserve governor will affect the central bank’s ability to set policy without political interference. By Colby Smith Colby ...

European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen dramatically called for “permanent” independence from the US and vowed to be “unflinching” in the face of President Trump’s pressure campaign ...

Independence High’s DJ McFadden will be the next head football coach at West Charlotte. McFadden, 36, has coached at Independence for five years, beginning in the 2021 season. He has produced five ...

Last week there was a lot of excited talk about Republicans beginning to liberate themselves from the complete servitude to Donald Trump that they exhibited throughout 2025. This week? Not so much. On ...

President Donald Trump called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell either "incompetent" or "crooked." "That jerk will be gone soon," Trump said of Powell later in the day. The latest attack came as ...

Jan. 7 is National Bobblehead Day, and what better day in 2026 to debut an America 250-inspired bobblehead? That was part of the thought process for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in ...

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...