Health & Health Care

No Kansas City-area ACA plans will cover Children’s Mercy next year. Families are scrambling

By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga Children’s Mercy Hospital recently announced it will be out of network for Kansas City-area residents who purchased health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The change is slated to take effect Jan. 1. The hospital estimates about 400 of its patients will be impacted. Across the metro,...

Spring Hill man arrested after high-speed chase and crash on I-35

Lenexa angler to compete in national bass tournament for $1.25 million

Overland Park is eventually leaving its current city hall. What could happen to the building?

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New locally owned bridal boutique opens in Overland Park

With new fire station on hold, Olathe approves $2.2M for ‘critical repairs’

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Kansas House 2026 — Meet the candidates running in all of Johnson County’s 27 districts

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Why Dinah Sykes, a Lenexa Democrat, wants to be Kansas’ next Insurance Commissioner

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JOHNSON COUNTY REAL ESTATE

Leawood: Four-bedroom house listed on Meadow Ln. for $1.82 million

Leawood: Four-bedroom home listed on Pembroke Ln. for $1.3 million

Olathe: Five-bedroom house listed on 131st St. for $2 million

These were the ten most expensive homes listed last week in Johnson County

Five-bedroom Alhambra St. home comes to market in Fairway for $1.4M

Taylor-Made Team Real Estate Spotlight

FOOD & DRINK

Overland Park’s Bluhawk is getting 2 new restaurants

Pho & Boil, Vietnamese and Cajun eatery, now open in Overland Park

Groundhouse Coffee owners are selling their Gardner cafe

Popular Italian deli La Fetta opens new spot in Prairie Village’s Corinth Quarter

LOCAL BUSINESS

Overland Park’s longtime ‘shoe dude’ is closing his downtown shoe repair shop

Toys ‘R’ Us, iconic ’90s store, is coming back to Oak Park Mall in Overland Park

Retired Blue Valley teacher opening her own bookstore and plant shop in Olathe

Hy-Vee plans new Overland Park store in former Price Chopper space at 119th and Metcalf

Nearly 20 years after Dillons left, Shawnee’s Westbrooke Green has a grocery store again

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Best bets for fun and engagement in Johnson County and (slightly) beyond!

JOHNSON COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Johnson County Wastewater general manager Susan Pekarek retires after leading 2 billion-dollar projects

Johnson County to buy Gardner building for new mental health clinic

Johnson County eliminates 8 jobs across four departments, saving roughly $1M

Johnson County passes $1.9B budget — Here’s how it impacts your tax bill

Johnson County News by City 🏘️

OVERLAND PARK NEWS

Meet Shawnee Mission’s 2 new high school principals — A SM East alum and an Atchison transplant

Could construction at Brookridge redevelopment in Overland Park actually start by the end of the year?

Driver walks away after minivan plunges 20 feet into Blue River in southern Overland Park

SHAWNEE NEWS

After 30 years, a Shawnee park playground is getting new equipment

Shawnee Police killed someone’s horse. Could they have done things differently?

Children’s Mercy opens express care and ortho injury clinic in Shawnee

LENEXA NEWS

Teen breaks leg in e-bike crash in front of pickup truck in western Lenexa

Man on bicycle injured after driver hits him on 87th Street near I-35 in Lenexa

Lenexa police officer shot man in leg during incident outside apartment complex

OLATHE NEWS

Olathe’s new 119th Street roundabout opens Wednesday — but drivers will have to wait for new bridge

EPA warned Olathe chemical cleanup wasn’t working in 2021. Now, things have gotten worse

140 JoCo students get down in the dirt, learning to grow greens in Olathe

LEAWOOD NEWS

Ex-Leawood priest Richard Storey pleads guilty to stealing almost $160,000 from Curé of Ars parish

Judge orders ex-Leawood priest back to court for violating bond conditions

Leawood’s $766M Hallbrook North project gets a new name: Highpoint

PRAIRIE VILLAGE NEWS

‘Old stomping grounds’ — Dozens gather to reminisce on yesteryear at Prairie Village Shops

Overland Park man, 39, identified as person killed in Prairie Village crash on Roe Avenue

Prairie Village rejects Halo Act adoption — Where do other JoCo cities stand?

NORTHEAST JOCO NEWS

Merriam single trash hauler starts next week — Here’s what you need to know

4-vehicle crash on I-35 backs up morning rush-hour traffic

Mission OKs plan to turn Broadmoor Tower and former JCPenney site into nearly 650 apartments

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Arthur “Art” Leonard Van Cleave

Carl D. Minick

Kevin Aguilar Tenorio

Deborah Pennington

Patrick Buckley

K-12 EDUCATION

Blue Valley welcomes 4 new high school principals this year

De Soto contract negotiations persist, leaving teachers frustrated

‘It’s part of their identity’: Blue Valley to end Chinese Immersion Program, citing budget challenges

Shawnee Mission weighs $370M bond options to rebuild Belinder, Rosehill and possibly a ‘TBD’ school

St. James Academy students who now perform in the cafeteria poised to get $16M arts center