Local Government

A half-cent sales tax for downtown Merriam improvements may be on a spring 2027 ballot measure. The Merriam City Council on Monday signaled support for a ballot measure that would ask registered voters to consider a half-cent sales tax to...

Leawood has become the second Johnson County municipality to decline including in city codes the new Kansas Halo law that requires a 25-foot buffer between first responders and civilians under certain circumstances while the responders are working. Prairie Village...

The Leawood Police Department plans to swap out a federal grant it was originally awarded to buy a license plate reader and use it instead for a drone. The move, approved by the Leawood City Council at its meeting on...

Leawood City Council members on Monday rebuffed a last-ditch request by a former councilmember to allow fundraising to save the 73-year-old former city hall building. Former councilmember Debra Filla presented the city council with a request to set up a...

The Lenexa City Council meeting on Tuesday devolved into finger-pointing as two councilmembers went back and forth in a heated exchange over a ruling that several councilmembers broke Kansas' open meetings law. From the dais on Tuesday, Councilmember Bill Nicks...

Note: The story has been updated with statements from Lenexa City Councilmember Chris Herron and Lenexa resident Jeff Cheek. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach found five Lenexa city councilmembers discussed a large development project privately before a public meeting and...

Overland Park will take over part of the historic Strang Depot property in downtown Overland Park from the historical society to use as a public plaza. Under this deal, the Overland Park Historical Society will maintain ownership of the actual...

Record-breaking housing permits, business expansions and investments in public safety and parks took center stage during Olathe Mayor John Bacon’s annual State of the City address last week. “Today, I’m happy to say the state of the city is strong,”...

Overland Park could move to a single-contract trash-hauling system that allows homeowners associations with their own contracts to opt out. While nothing is official yet and won’t be for quite some time, those are some of the key details from...

In 2023, the Olathe City Council approved a $20 million budget to replace the city fire department’s headquarters, Fire Station 1. The station, built in 1983, was already described as being “at the end of its useful life.” Construction was...

Overland Park City Hall near Antioch Road and Santa Fe Drive has long served as the primary hub for city business. But within the next decade, city operations will move to a new city hall space closer to the heart...

The city of Merriam’s move to a citywide, single trash hauler is almost complete. Starting Nov. 2, all residential trash service will be conducted by GFL Environment LLC, a Canada-based trash hauler that the city has a five-year contract with...