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About this app

The Kansas City Star local newspaper app is the fastest and easiest way to get the trusted Kansas City local news that matters to you. Access daily local Kansas City news coverage, investigative reporting, national headline news, crime, sports, local business, & more from across the Kansas City metro area in Missouri and Kansas.

The Kansas City Star local news app is your trusted source for local, daily journalism serving the Kansas City metropolitan region. Our news team reports on local government, public safety, business, education, and community developments affecting residents in Kansas City, Lee’s Summit, Independence, Blue Springs, Belton, Parkville, Gladstone, Liberty, Grandview, Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Prairie Village, & surrounding metro communities, alongside statewide coverage & national headline news.

ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM A TRUSTED LOCAL NEWSPAPER
• Daily local news and stories from around the Kansas City metro area
• AI generated summaries on all articles reviewed by our newsroom
• The Kansas City Star local newspaper opinions, editorials and columns you love
• Edition, a digital destination for the latest news, features, and insights. Like the printed newspaper, it is a complete report of the day’s news compiled by our news team overnight

LIVE VIDEO
• Watch live video of local news stories and national news coverage
• View stunning photos and videos of local news and community events

LOCAL SPORTS
• Full coverage reporting on sports teams like The Kansas City Chiefs & Kansas City Royals
• Keep up with KC area University and high school teams.
• Stay connected to your favorite teams and favorite sports writers

PERSONALIZE YOUR NEWS
• Stay informed on the topics and articles that matter to you
• Favorite topics to get personalized feeds.
• Search for news articles, videos, games and more
• Bookmark newspaper articles to read later
• Read articles your way with full support for dark mode and light mode

DISCOVER MORE WAYS TO FOLLOW YOUR LOCAL NEWS
• Browse newspaper articles by category
• Share articles on Facebook, X Twitter or by email
• Comment on news articles
• Access & download previous issues of our newspaper
• Recharge and unwind with our puzzles and games

GET DAILY NEWS AND MORE WITH THE KANSAS CITY STAR LOCAL NEWSPAPER
Download our The Kansas City Star newspaper app today to stay informed on local daily news, crime, sports, national headlines, & more.

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Ratings and reviews

Crashes continuously. Won't even open anymore on samsung android. Un-installed and reinstalled. When it "worked" you'd always get a different story than what was clicked. Update: well it launches and then closes again. The next time it stays open but then I have to log in again. If you browse for a few minutes it starts opening the wrong stories. It's an indexing problem when a story gets added but you would think they could come up with a scheme that would survive updates.

I support local journalism as it is a valuable resource. That said, disappointed with this app. It requires re-login constantly - at best every other time I open it. Good for browsing headlines but a hassle if you want to actually read articles. Add to it the price of my monthly digital subscription continues to increases without any notification or warning every 12 months. I understand good journalism costs money to produce but the cost is now outweighing the value being offered.

Here is a typical experience I run into almost every time I use the app: a notification comes in about an interesting article, I click the notification, the app either freezes or asks me to log into my subscription and in the process, redirects me to the homepage with the article I clicked nowhere to be found. The names of the articles and the somewhat click-baity way the notifications are written make it impossible to find the article you clicked on in the first place. Every. Single. Time.

What’s new

• Support for blockquotes on articles
• Fixes playback issue with top video in Featured Videos section
• Fixes banner ad overlap on Edition section articles
• Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements