Jim McGraw, who helped build one of Kansas City's best-known companies and eventually went on to lead the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as its chairman, died Wednesday at age 90.

A boom in travelers eager to get away is expected to push Kansas City International Airport's international flight numbers closer to its pre-pandemic levels. Southwest Airlines — the airport's biggest airline by far — launched their first-ever international service Saturday from Kansas City (Code: MCI). With the addition of nonstop flights to Cancun (Code: CUN), Southwest joins American and Frontier in serving the popular Mexican destination. American resumed its seasonal nonstop service…

The $1 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed Monday is a motivating factor for a new east-west transit study. The Kansas City Streetcar Authority along with Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, the city of Kansas City, Jackson County, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, and The University of Kansas Health System are seeking proposals to complete an approximately 12-month study evaluating transit connections between the KU Health System…

Riverside Red X, a well known grocery and liquor store at 2401 NW Platte Road in Riverside, is going to build a new 59,000-square-foot shop on the southeast corner of its current location. Zeke Young, president and owner of Riverside Red X, said in a Monday release that customers can "look forward to a high-end liquor room, a dedicated 'Filling Station' for hosting events and samplings that opens to an outdoor area, expanded produce and frozen sections, a humidor, full-service deli and meat counter,…

A massive industrial real estate portfolio consisting of 13 buildings throughout the Kansas City metro has sold. A separate release may give some additional clues about the huge CRE sale.

As Dianne Cleaver prepares to leave the Urban Neighborhood Initiative after almost a decade, she's got a new task ahead of her: train her successor. UNI's board announced the hiring of Jamee Rodgers as its incoming CEO. He officially joined the organization Monday and will take over when Cleaver retires at the end of the year. "I count it the highest honor to be selected to lead this wonderful organization into its next era of service and growth," Rodgers said in a Monday release. "Every position…