Lenexa News

A more than seven-hour Lenexa City Council meeting ended early Wednesday morning with the governing body approving a plan to build 50 affordable single-family homes near the site of a planned future city park in the western part of...

A family of Argentina natives in Johnson County is celebrating their home country's national soccer team setting up its base camp in Kansas City for this summer's World Cup. Last week, Argentina's national football team, the reigning World Cup champions,...

For Megan Farley, a college job in the mid-2000s became much more. As a Kent State University freshman back in Kent, Ohio, she began working at Ohio-based Pulp Juice and Smoothie Bar. At the time, the healthy eatery was still...

By Sam Zeff On Oct. 21 the entire Lenexa, Kansas police patrol division was hunting Canyen Ashworth. At 1:50 that afternoon, the department issued a BOLO — police shorthand for “be on the lookout” — for the 28-year-old information technology consultant...

A plan to build 50 affordable single-family homes in western Lenexa cleared a key hurdle on Monday. Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City wants to use a 17-acre property currently owned by the city near the southwest corner of 86th...

Work on Lenexa's $10 million project to renovate an aging pool is on course for it to open in the spring. The foundation for Ad Astra Park, including the pool shell and walls, as well as underground piping is complete,...

A man who had been on the run for a Lenexa cold case murder was found guilty by a jury in Johnson County District Court. On Tuesday in Johnson County District Court, a six-day jury trial ended with a guilty...

A national pet retailer will soon trade Overland Park for Lenexa — though it’s just hopping across the street. In the coming weeks, California-based Petco’s store at 11620 W. 95th St. will officially relocate into the Orchard Corners shopping center...

Two drivers are hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 in Lenexa on Tuesday evening. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the crash happened at 4:55 p.m., on northbound I-35 just south of the Quivira Road Viaduct, between 95th and...

Lenexa Police confirm they're investigating an alleged home invasion with a gunshot fired late Sunday near 75th Street and Quivira Road. The department's calls for service log shows officers were dispatched to the 7600 block of Halsey Street at 11:57...

Officials in Lenexa and Shawnee both pursued the Kansas City Chiefs to relocate to their respective cities last year before the team announced a deal to build a new stadium in Wyandotte Couny and new team headquarters in Olathe. This...

Although Lenexa officials last year approved an over 66% increase in the number of places available at Project 1020, the county's only cold-weather homeless shelter, the facility at the Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church has been full to overflowing...