De Soto News

Work on Beale Infrastructure's De Soto data center is officially underway, and much to many residents’ dismay, the project scope has more than doubled in size since it was announced last August. California-based Beale Infrastructure began construction in April on...

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...

Three men from Johnson County were among the skydivers killed in Sunday's plane crash in Butler, Missouri. Eleven skydivers and one pilot were on board on flight, which crashed at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, just after takeoff from Butler Memorial...

What’s on your list of wanted amenities for De Soto’s community center? One De Soto child requests “a pool with a very twisty slide, a lasy river and a kitty pool.” While De Soto City Hall already features a community...

A lawsuit filed against Panasonic Energy alleges the company failed to respond to a worker's claims of sexual harassment and retaliated against her at its De Soto EV battery plant. In March in the U.S. District Court for the District...

Investigators say an Overland Park father left his two children inside a hot SUV for more than two hours last summer, with temperatures soaring past 100 degrees inside the vehicle, leading to his three-year-old daughter's death. A criminal affidavit, released...

Fire investigators say a chemical reaction inside a battery created heat and smoke on Tuesday morning at the Panasonic facility in De Soto. Firefighters with the Northwest Consolidated Fire District responded to the facility at 10301 Astra Parkway at 6:23...

April showers bring May flowers — or, in this case, a 15-foot sunflower sculpture outside De Soto City Hall. City officials, the De Soto Arts Council and USD 232 students and staff celebrated the installation of the kinetic sculpture, titled...

De Soto’s newest city councilmember brings educational expertise to the table. The city of De Soto swore in its newest councilmember, Lindsay McCracken, at the April 15 city council meeting. McCracken fills former councilmember Victoria McMoran’s seat, which she vacated...

Call it the G.O.A.T. of fundraisers. An online donation drive for a partially paralyzed goat in Shawnee has raised more than $8,000 that will help pay for customized wheels and ongoing medical care for a young goat, appropriately named ...

De Soto’s youth soccer league will soon get an upgrade. The De Soto City Council unanimously approved Feb. 19 hiring MidAmerica Sports Construction for $1.8 million to build soccer fields across from Riverfest Park on 79th Street. Construction is anticipated...

Voters in USD 232 approved a $99.8 million bond measure, allowing the district to move forward with plans to make safety and security improvements, along with adding special education learning spaces and more. Unofficial election results from the mail-in election...