Uniquely KC is a Star series exploring what makes Kansas City special. From our award-winning barbecue to rich Midwestern history, we’re exploring why KC is the “Paris of the Plains.” The historic ...

After 61 years of rain, wind, snow and sweltering heat that rotted its wood, broke its wheels and corroded its metal, the old covered wagon held. Cooper Weeks worried it wouldn’t. The worst-case ...

WILL BE PROSECUTED. IT’S THE END OF AN ERA. IN WESTPORT, THE ICONIC COVERED WAGON AT WESTPORT ROAD AND SOUTHWEST TRAFFICWAY IS BEING REPLACED. KMBC NINE’S ALAN SHOPE EXPLAINS THERE IS A NEW THING ...

Editor’s note: An anonymous reader suggested we do a story on "Whatever happened to some of the old places you’d go for coffee and food late at nite." He or she suggested the Covered Wagon just west ...

The historic Conestoga-style wagon that for 61 years was a fixture at the Old Westport Shopping Center, before its deteriorating wood body was hauled away last month and replaced, has been discovered ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. - Hopping in a covered wagon, Carol Collins went back in time to the 1800s this week in search of adventure. For the feisty 85-year-old from Houston, the thought of crossing 84 miles ...

The Star on Sunday, March 3, 1963, showed the prairie schooner at the opening celebration of the Old Westport Shopping Center. Some 200 people attended the Saturday dedication. The Kansas City Star ...