On a rainy afternoon in early March, dozens of children and adults’ faces lit up as they saw snakes, lizards, fish and sharks of all shapes and sizes at the Electric City Aquarium & Reptile Den. It ...

Independence will elect two at-large City Council members April 7 from among four candidates — incumbent Jared Fears, former councilwoman Lucy Young and challengers Cody Atkinson and Jackie Dorman.

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...