Leawood News

Eight candidates vying for four seats representing parts of Olathe, Overland Park and Leawood in southeastern Johnson County laid out their priorities in two back-to-back live forums hosted by the Johnson County Post on Wednesday evening. The Post is hosting...

The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Missouri man was killed following a crash on Interstate 435 in Leawood on Saturday afternoon. According to the Highway Patrol's online crash log, the crash occurred at 3:41 p.m. on westbound I-435, just east...

“We are normies,” Leawood writer Sherry Kuehl tells her Instagram followers about her inclusion in the cast of NBC reality show "The Traitors: New Blood." Normies, in that no one on the 22-member cast of competitors this fall is a...

Leawood Police are crediting a dog with alerting an officer to help its owner, who was in need of medical attention at a house last month. Leawood PD posted edited clips of the officer's body cam footage to social media...

In a decision that one councilmember described as “heartbreaking,” the Leawood City Council last week voted to follow their public works department’s advice and not install sidewalks on some streets leading to Brookwood Elementary School next year. The sidewalks were...

Just months after making its Prairie Village debut, a healthy eatery has already set its sights on another Johnson County city. Arizona-based Flower Child has filed plans to open a new location as part of a redeveloping part of the...

The new owners of Town Center Plaza and Town Center Crossing are asking Leawood City Council members to approve a special sales tax district to help them with the cost of an exterior makeover. Representatives of Federal Realty Investment Trust...

Six candidates vying for three seats representing parts of northeastern Johnson County and the Blue Valley area laid out their priorities in a live forum hosted by the Johnson County Post on Tuesday night. The Post is hosting seven nights...

The Leawood mayor and city councilmembers voted to give themselves their first pay raise in nine years, approving base pay increases of 36.4% and 50% since 2018 for the councilmembers and mayor respectively. The city council also approved increases in...

The memory of Angela Hammond is often running in the background of Echo Divers founder James Hinkle’s mind as he combs through historical maps and runs drone flights for real estate agents. Hinkle was 17 when Hammond went missing during...

A California-based retailer has officially made its Johnson County debut. On Friday, athleisure store Alo opened its new store at the Town Center Plaza in Leawood. Alo opened at 4868 W. 119th St. The store took over a space at the...

Leawood voters will decide this spring whether to allow the city to charge a five-eighths cent special sales tax dedicated to replacing corrugated metal stormwater pipes and updating equipment in the police and fire departments. With one councilmember absent, the...