About The Stare
The Stare is Kansas City's reading room: a fast, honest place to see what every KC newsroom is reporting right now — and to read original stories we write ourselves.
Two halves, one page
The Wire aggregates headlines from Kansas City's newsrooms into one clean river. We pull the headline, a short excerpt, and a link — then we send you to the original publisher to read it. We don't republish anyone's work, and we don't dress someone else's reporting up as ours.
Stories are our own — original reporting, features, and guides written by real, named people. Every piece is bylined and dated. No machine wrote it; no algorithm scored it.
The line we keep
The Stare covers Kansas City; it does not judge-and-sell it. The newsroom takes no outside equity and runs behind an editorial firewall from the rest of KS.City. We'd rather be trusted than be first.
Sister to ks.city
The Stare is the news. ks.city is the living directory of what's going on in Kansas City — the businesses, the makers, the things to do this week. Separate sites, one mission: pay attention to this city, closely and on purpose.
Currently aggregating
KMBC 9 · KCTV 5 · KSHB 41 · FOX4 KC · KCUR · The Beacon · The Pitch · Northeast News · Metro Voice