Westport Ale House has closed at 4128 Broadway. The owners blamed inflation in a Facebook post Tuesday. “Like numerous bars and restaurants across the United States, we are closing due to the numerous ...

Brett Allred owns three bars in Westport: the Latin nightclub Lotus, the hip-hop nightclub Bridger’s and the sports-oriented Johnny Kaw’s Yard Bar. On Friday, he’ll open a fourth: Bar Rec, at 4120 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A young man remains in intensive care with a fractured skull after a night out in Westport Halloween weekend. Now police and his family are trying to figure out what happened. Erik ...

Emily Ivory didn’t think much of it when she heard a few gun shots outside her Westport apartment Sunday night. Shootings have happened relatively often in the three years that Ivory, 22, has lived in ...

Brett Allred’s four Westport venues — bars and restaurants and an event space — are currently closed because of the pandemic. But he’s so sold on the area and its post-pandemic possibilities, he’s ...