The Missouri Department of Transportation will break ground Wednesday on the new Buck O'Neil Bridge over the Missouri River. The groundbreaking ceremony will feature Gov. Mike Parson, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, Jackson County Executive Frank White and Northland Regional Chamber of Commerce Chair Ed Ford. Opened in 1956, the current bridge carries about 50,000 vehicles over the Missouri River every day. In February, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission selected Overland Park-based…

Construction began Friday on a $36 million multi-sport facility north of the river. The complex, near Missouri Highway 152 and Platte Purchase Drive, will have 10 synthetic turf fields for soccer, football, baseball, softball and lacrosse. Sporting Fields Athletics, a division of Sporting Kansas City, will operate the park. The Central Bank Sporting Complex is a primary component of a $375 million multiphase development on 492 acres within Twin Creeks Village. The larger development will include…

A new, veteran-owned brewery is coming to the Crossroads Arts District, taking over a space left behind by a different Kansas City beer business. Red Sash Brewing LLC is moving into 406 E. 18th St., where Border Brewing Co. first opened its doors in 2015. Border Brewing moved out of the 1,275-square-foot location in the spring and relocated one block east to a 6,438-square-foot, two-story building at 512 E. 18th St. Red Sash owner Pat Mitchell, a 2006 West Point graduate who served eight years…

Kansas City native Jayaun Smith made his first appearance on Season 20 of "Hell's Kitchen," the reality cooking show on Fox hosted by Gordon Ramsay. Smith is a personal chef that also runs two KC restaurants and a food truck.

Three cameras are providing live streaming video of peregrine falcon nests in the Kansas City area. These falcon nests are part of a longtime project by the Missouri Department of Conservation and partners to return nesting falcons to the state. Peregrine falcons became endangered due to habitat loss and pesticide use that greatly hampered nesting success. The department’s program is coordinated with a broader multistate effort in the Midwest to boost and track falcon populations. Nest boxes…

Starlight Theatre announced Thursday that it would be the venue to host the Van Gogh Alive! experience this fall. It’s described as a large-scale, immersive, multi-sensory arts and entertainment experience that people can literally get into. “There’s two selfie opportunities that are amazing,” said Julian Zugazagoitia, CEO of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which also is presenting the experience. “One is the reconstitution, but with the optics effects, that you feel and see his bedroom.” The…