Development

De Soto could get a second data center — this one nearly 4 times bigger than the first

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Just weeks after De Soto’s incoming 300-acre data center site broke ground, a separate data center developer is looking to build a campus nearly quadruple that size just down the road at Astra Enterprise Park. This marks the fourth data center proposal to come up since March in western and...

Cosmetic chain Ulta Beauty opens new Shawnee store

Great Lenexa BBQ Battle crowns MO griller as champion, edging out 2 JoCo teams

Prairie Village Police looking for suspect in Nall Avenue hit-and-run

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7 people displaced by duplex fire in Olathe, cause under investigation

Soccer lovers gather in Olathe for special World Cup watch party

Got FOMO for FIFA Fan Fest? Our JoCo reporter went and tells us her tips

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‘It’s like she vanished into thin air’: Lenexa Police reopen a 40-year-old cold case

The Lenexa Police Department is hoping to get new leads on a disappearance and death case that happened 40 years ago in July. This week,...

Johnson County needs poll workers. Some eager volunteers just got turned away

Editor's note: This story has been updated with Connie Schmidt's correct position title. She is Johnson County's election commissioner, not interim election commissioner. Some people...

Facing falling enrollment, Shawnee Mission sets out to redraw school boundary lines

Expectations of declining enrollment in the Shawnee Mission School District have prompted a review of school boundaries through the summer with a vote on...

Watch the moment Keaton Wagler became an NBA player and how his Shawnee Mission fans reacted

Cheers and claps echoed throughout Shawnee Mission Northwest High School as alum Keaton Wagler was drafted to the Los Angeles Clippers. On Tuesday evening, Shawnee...

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FOOD & DRINK

New Mexican-inspired eatery Casa Ama opens in Prairie Village

Kansas City-based eatery Billie’s Grocery targeting Overland Park location

Local Italian sandwich shop La Fetta expanding to Prairie Village’s Corinth Quarter

New Yemeni coffee shop opens its doors this week near 95th and Metcalf

LOCAL BUSINESS

This new Lenexa sports bar has beer, big screens and batting cages

Coffee cake is out, custom suits and Sinatra are in: H.M. Cole opens in old Frannie Franks space in Leawood

This new Overland Park shop will let people make their own lip gloss

This downtown Overland Park bookstore is getting a darker makeover — mysteries, thrillers and tattoos included

Wellness studio built around the idea of doing nothing opens in Fairway

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OVERLAND PARK NEWS

He bought his OP house so his parents could start over. Now it helps homeless men do the same

Brookridge remains ‘dirt pile’ in Overland Park. Developer asks for extensions as key deadline looms

Overland Park standoff ends after hours of negotiation with man dying of self-inflicted gunshot wound

SHAWNEE NEWS

Driver seriously injured after truck careens into light pole on K-7 in Shawnee

Shawnee’s first-ever ‘Americana and Ales’ fest draws crowd for live music, craft beer and World Cup soccer

Kansas has lost 96% of tallgrass prairie. Bison might be the key to saving what’s left

LENEXA NEWS

Lenexa’s Ad Astra Pool grand reopening delayed again

Smoking outlets, rotted beams — Lenexa vote sets Radisson hotel up for possible demo

Lenexa’s plans for a new fire station begin to take shape

OLATHE NEWS

Olathe Police searching for 7-month-old boy and his mother, missing since late May

Olathe business executive gets federal prison time for selling goods to Russia

Olathe’s downtown parking crunch will get worse before it gets better, starting June 29

LEAWOOD NEWS

Leawood council’s final stamp for park plan paves way to demolish historic city hall

Affidavit accuses ex-Leawood priest of using church funds to pay for vacations, clothing and medical bills

Leawood man among 3 arrested on federal charges of providing material support to ISIS

PRAIRIE VILLAGE NEWS

England players spent ‘recovery’ day in Meadowbrook Park doing yoga

Prairie Village puts ‘spotlight’ on Juneteenth amid World Cup

County library pitches idea for new Corinth branch at Prairie Village civic campus

NORTHEAST JOCO NEWS

2 injured in I-35 crash in Merriam that prompts mile-long traffic backup

Aldi grocery store to replace closing Office Max at new-look Merriam Town Center

Mission Hills attorney pleads guilty to causing fatal drunk driving crash in Missouri

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K-12 EDUCATION

SMSD’s plan to ban cell phones relies on students storing them. ‘Nothing will change,’ parent says

Shawnee Mission parents urge district to put new limits on screen time in class

Feds gives Olathe, Shawnee Mission 10 days to change transgender policies or lose funding

Olathe school board extends Superintendent Brent Yeager’s contract 3 years

Olathe Schools have lost 2,000+ students since 2019. Now closures are coming