Environment & Climate

From laptop to watch to camera batteries, the City of Shawnee will help people recycle their used batteries in a safer, more environmentally friendly way. As part of "National Battery Take-Back Day," Shawnee is collaborating with Waste Management, the National...

If you walk or drive through the Park at Forest Green neighborhood in southern Overland Park, you’re likely to see something pretty unique. Its streets are lined with mature, healthy trees, which isn’t all that special in a city that...

Correction: This story was updated at 2:37 p.m. Sept. 8 to correct the location of one of the flood-prone areas in Leawood. The area near B.J. Collins' home on Wenonga Lane that also experiences flooding is between Cherokee and...

De Soto residents have spotted a bobcat wandering around the neighborhood, showing up often enough that they’ve been able to take photos of the normally elusive animal. But Johnson County Animal Control said there may be a reason it keeps...

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids held a roundtable in Shawnee with local officials and stakeholders about bison herd restoration as part of her America 250 week here in town. She said the discussion helped her appreciate the importance of both preserving...

Overland Park is pondering ways to improve the city's lone recycling center, which attracts thousands of users each year and takes in more than a million pounds of recyclable materials. That’s after a recent study on trash and other solid...

Before it could go to its new owner, a sold F-250 truck at Olathe Ford Lincoln first had to serve as the home of a family of robins. What the dealership called an “unexpected adventure” on Facebook, started about a...

At the Overland Park Arboretum, you can walk on trails, watch birds, smell countless flowers and spend time in nature. Plus, you can get pretty close to the body of water with the most populated watershed in the region —...

When she set out on a run in Prairie Village on a recent Saturday, Monica Doring had no idea she'd be witness to an actual life-or-death drama straight out of Animal Planet. Luckily, this duck tale has a happy ending. Doring,...

After diverting over 71,000 pounds of food waste since last July, the city of Prairie Village plans to keep its new drop-off composting program. The Prairie Village City Council voted 11-0 on Monday to approve making its drop-off composting program...

Toxic chemicals linger at a long-gone dry cleaning business at 103rd Street and State Line Road in Leawood. Tri- and Tetracholoroethylenes — banned or being phased out because of their links to Parkinson’s disease and certain cancers — have been...

Damon Patterson grew up exploring the creeks of Kansas City, Missouri. “Everywhere that I lived growing up, there was always some kind of creek, either in the backyard or close by,” he said. “Those were kind of my playgrounds.” A sense...