Mission Hills

The Mission Hills City Council has approved nearly $40,000 for flood studies to be conducted along Brush and Rock Creeks. Why it matters: Kansas City Country Club, located off Indian Lane between Shawnee Mission Parkway and 63rd Street, is set...

The Mission Hills City Council has set new guidelines for yard play structures and clarified definitions for different types of residential play equipment. Why it matters: The city will now strongly recommend that residents who want to have play structures...

Mission Hills drivers will now see a lower speed limit when traveling on Tomahawk Road. The city of Mission Hills last week decreased Tomahawk Road’s speed limit from 30  to 25 miles per hour, according to a city flier. Tomahawk Road...

While a Mission Hills couple faces the harsh realities caused by an aggressive brain tumor, they are calling on Congress to waive a waiting period for terminal patients needing Social Security disability benefits. Jim and Laura Mytinger recently started a...

School is back in session, and the end-of-summer weather makes for optimal conditions for students and parents walking to and from school. In some residential parts of northeast Johnson County, like in Mission Hills, old Leawood and Prairie Village, pedestrians...

Mission Hills on Monday became the seventh city in the Shawnee Mission area to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that provides legal protections for individuals on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Mission Hills passage of the ordinance comes...

Mission Hills continued to wrestle with how to best apply non-discrimination language providing legal protections to LGBTQ+ individuals during this week’s council meeting. While governing body members generally agreed they support the spirit of having a non-discrimination ordinance, several...

Mission Hills councilmembers this week approved spending $8,000 on community functions in 2019, with about half of the budget going towards a new event “Le Diner En Blanc.” The semi-formal picnic will take place May 17 at the base of...

Mission Hills continued its discussion on crafting a non-discrimination ordinance Monday, with much of the conversation focused on comparing language already passed by neighboring communities. Mission, Prairie Village, Merriam, and Roeland Park have already passed NDOs- which grant legal protections...

The Mission Hills city council this week approved spending $75,000 on an engineering contract with Water Resource Solutions for 2D and 3D modeling of the Rock Creek/Brush Creek confluence as the city looks to address the potential of overflow...

Mission Hills will move forward with drafting a non-discrimination ordinance that would provide legal protections for LGBTQ+ residents and employees, the city council agreed Monday. The city will base its ordinance off of those adopted by the neighboring cities...

Mission Hills is asking its residents for help identifying three men seen in security camera footage who are believed to have filled the city's Dogipot disposal bins with "commercial" levels of dog waste. Mission Hills has a handful of the...