# Kansas City Star | Local News

> Latest Articles | KC Missouri

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id445990659](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id445990659)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id445990659`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The McClatchy Company
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (6,613 ratings)
- **Version:** 11.1.18
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2011-06-29
- **Size:** 145 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kansas-city-star-local-news/id445990659)
- **Website:** [https://www.kansascity.com/](https://www.kansascity.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://mcclatchy.com/privacy-policy](https://mcclatchy.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

**Kansas City Star | Local News** delivers trusted daily journalism from across the Kansas City metropolitan area in Missouri and Kansas. Read local reporting on government, crime, education, business, public safety, community developments, and more, along with national headlines, editorials, columns, and digital newspaper editions.

Watch live news coverage, browse local and college sports, follow favorite topics and writers, save articles for later, and search stories, videos, games, and more. The app also includes newsroom-reviewed AI article summaries, dark and light modes, article sharing and commenting, previous newspaper issues, puzzles, and games.

## Rankings

- #23,148 — Overall
- #70 — article
- #78 — company

## Review summary

The KC Star app is plagued by stability, navigation, device-compatibility, and access issues while readers still value the underlying journalism. Users report frequent login problems, content not loading, videos failing to play, and ads interrupting reading. Older iPads can’t update, making the edition unreadable for some. The paywall and sharing restrictions, plus perceived clunkiness, undermine value. A minority note positive points like journalism quality and privacy-related fixes. Overall, the app needs better reliability and device support to justify continued subscriptions.

### Pros

- Journalism quality praised by readers (KC Star journalism is seen as strong)
- Readers note value in KC Star's content despite app issues
- Privacy-related fixes (Apple Private Relay) noted as a positive improvement

### Cons

- Frequent login and subscription access problems; daily login required; login can fail on iPad
- Older iPad compatibility issues; updates disable access on older devices
- Clunky navigation and difficult-to-use UI in newer version
- Video playback issues (videos not playing or mislinked)
- Content loading issues and app instability (articles not loading; crashes)

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