17+ hour, 53+ min ago   (172+ words) The Leawood Police Department says a volunteer dive team found a vehicle belonging to a missing person in a pond on Saturday morning. In a news release, Leawood Police Department spokesperson Capt. Jason Ahring said the vehicle was found in…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (467+ words) The Olathe City Council recently got a first look at the design concepts for the rebuild of Santa Fe Street and I-35. City staff presented the plans, which include decorative fencing, landscaped medians and lighting, on Sept. 1. The $200 million overhaul is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (235+ words) Now, I’m not a doctor, so I’m not recommending or not recommending weight loss drugs, period. That’s a conversation between you and your doctor. But here’s one thing you have to consider before you start taking one: what happens after…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (157+ words) Overland Park firefighters worked for more than two hours to extinguish a tractor-trailer fire on Interstate 435 near Quivira Road on Tuesday evening. Firefighters were called to the westbound lanes of I-435 at 5:14 p.m. and arrived to find smoke from the back of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (260+ words) Eight adults, a child, two cats and a dog lost their homes after an apartment building fire displaced them early Tuesday morning in Lenexa. Lenexa and Shawnee firefighters, alongside Johnson County Med-Act, responded to a fire at 5:35 a.m. at The Meadows…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (220+ words) The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Kansas City, Kansas, man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 in Olathe Monday morning. Troopers say the crash happened at about 9:40 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-35 north of 159th Street. According to the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (222+ words) One person was killed, and at least four others were injured in crashes on Interstate 435 in Overland Park on Friday evening. The first crash happened at about 8:45 p.m. at the exit from westbound I-435 to U.S. 69 Highway. Recorded radio traffic from arriving Johnson…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (675+ words) Ten-year-old Duke Ommert died after an electric scooter crash in Leawood last year when a car struck him as he crossed the street mid-block. Duke’s death, other e-scooter and electric bike injuries (a nearly 300% increase in emergency room visits from…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (159+ words) Students across most of Johnson County are already back in classrooms, including in Olathe Public Schools. Olathe School District students in kindergarten through sixth grades as well as ninth went back on Aug. 13 and seventh and eighth and 10th-12th went back…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1738+ words) Could someone standing in their own front yard be charged with violating Kansas’s Halo Act if a police officer was conducting a traffic stop less than 25 feet away? Olathe Councilmember Matthew Schoonover posed that hypothetical question during an hour-long debate…...