Olathe News

Community members held their breath while they waited for Olathe Public Schools to announce the list of schools recommended for closure Thursday night. Tears of grief soon followed. The district recommended at the Olathe Board of Education meeting Thursday to...

Olathe officials remain opposed to building an interchange at K-10 and Lone Elm Road. But with the project moving forward regardless, the city is accepting up to $18.7 million from the Kansas Department of Transportation to make it safer. The...

At her apartment in Olathe, Sally Betta is able to remain independent, like she has for several decades, thanks to a program that a local interfaith group is trying to bring back to Johnson County. Betta is one of 14...

The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Kansas City, Kansas, man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 in Olathe on Monday morning. Troopers say the crash happened at about 9:40 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-35 north...

A $1.9 million grant came to Olathe Public Schools earlier this week to continue its Head Start early childhood education program. The grant, announced by Rep. Sharice Davids on Tuesday, comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...

Three adults and a child have non-life-threatening injuries after a rollover crash in Olathe on Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened at about 2:25 p.m. at the intersection of 135th Street and Black Bob Road in Olathe. Initial information from the scene...

Residents near a future Dillons in west Olathe said they were excited when they learned the grocery store was coming. They’re less enthusiastic about the hundreds of apartments and townhomes proposed next door. City staff and developers gave a first...

Olathe’s industrial footprint continues to expand. The Olathe City Council unanimously approved up to $239.8 million in industrial revenue bonds for three facilities that will manufacture electrical and power systems for data centers on Aug. 18. The buildings, operated by Wisconsin-based...

An Independence, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty to two felonies for her involvement in a fatal Olathe shooting that occurred last year. On July 23 in Johnson County District Court, Toni M. Tyson pleaded guilty to discharge of a firearm at...

It’s back-to-school time, Johnson County. Students across most of Johnson County are already back in classrooms, including in Olathe Public Schools. Olathe School District students in kindergarten through sixth grades as well as ninth went back on Aug. 13 and seventh...

Could someone standing in their own front yard be charged with violating Kansas' Halo Act if a police officer was conducting a traffic stop less than 25 feet away? Olathe Councilmember Matthew Schoonover posed that hypothetical question during an hour-long...

Red filled the Olathe City Council chambers Tuesday night as councilmembers prepared to decide the fate of the Starfish Project Foundation’s proposed new home. Supporters of the community-assistance nonprofit, wearing its signature color, packed the room. After months of debate over...