Kansas City

The Kansas City Council is beginning to rethink the city’s approach to future data center construction while striving to learn more about the booming industry’s impact locally.

The company that brought a data center to The Kansas City Star’s former home just over a year ago has now purchased the building while working to transform it into a tech hub and AI campus.

As governments at all levels continue to embrace new developments in artificial intelligence, cities are using automation for everything from reducing first responder paperwork to streamlined permitting.

The white, bullet-shaped, sub-5-foot, 420-pound robot is like a neighborhood beat cop as it glides its way through the Crossroads district on four wheels, gathering data from its cameras and greeting passersby.

This virtual academy is attached to Brookside Charter School, and it bills itself as Kansas City’s only virtual program where teaching happens on live, interactive video calls.

Nearly two weeks after a cyber attack struck the city of Kansas City’s website, contractors still can’t get building permits online and some zoning matters are going unheard.

The city is looking to implement a system that would allow callers to select the type of emergency they are reporting. Callers currently spend an average of one minute on hold when calling 911.

After four years of serving as the city’s CIO, Evans shared that he will be stepping down at the end of the month. Michael Walker will take over in an interim capacity as a national search is conducted for his replacement.

In Kansas City, Mo., leaders have implemented new technology to track snowplow locations, progress and other issues. It's an effort that has made snow removal in the city more time- and cost-efficient for constituents.

Faced with teacher shortages, district officials proposed adding cameras to classrooms in order to record and livestream lessons to other rooms. Teachers say this could harm learning, and students have privacy concerns.

Transit leaders gathered at the American Public Transit Association TRANSform Conference last month to discuss how projects like fare removal in Kansas City, Mo., or a bus rapid transit line in Seattle will help remake cities.