Overland Park News

For Robert Hughes, having a stall at the Overland Park Farmers’ Market is just part of the family business. A longtime vendor selling honey and honey products, he got his start at the farmers market decades ago. At the time,...

On a recent weekend at the beginning of the month, tables steadily filled at a new Overland Park coffee shop. Customers caught up on studying, or with one another, while sipping Yemeni coffee — many trying it for the...

After an Old Navy store closed in Overland Park earlier this year, its replacement is already on the horizon. TurnStyles Thrift, a nonprofit thrift store operated by Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas, is in the process of moving into the...

Decades of planning and working toward long-range goals across the city are what set Overland Park apart from other communities, said Mayor Curt Skoog this week. That was his overarching message during the annual State of the City address before...

An old funeral home and a single-family home on Metcalf Avenue in downtown Overland Park could be replaced by a mixed-use building with apartments and ground-level retail. It's the latest change proposed for one of Overland Park's busiest corridors, where...

When longtime Overland Park dance boutique Degage Dancewear closed last year after multiple decades in business, a veteran in the industry got the chance to “un-retire.” That’s how Robin Ochilltree remembers the phone call she got from a friend on...

For more than a decade, Brew Lab has been a downtown Overland Park mainstay. At the brewery and restaurant, people have celebrated many occasions; engagements, weddings, birthdays, baby showers. At the center of many of those celebrations, of course, has...

A redevelopment plan seeking to turn excess parking in the College Boulevard corridor into retail and apartments may be moving ahead after some key revisions following past rejections. Price Brothers, an Overland Park-based developer, is seeking to convert unused extra...

Though Valentino’s hasn't been open long in Overland Park, it’s certainly not new to everyone there. That became apparent when the Nebraska-based pizzeria announced its first Johnson County franchise a couple of months ago, and Nebraska natives in the county...

Overland Park Police say that the driver of a stolen pickup truck crashed into another driver and then ran from the scene late Sunday night. Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to the intersection of 143rd Street and Nall Avenue...

Overcast conditions and a chilly wind didn't keep hundreds of people from flocking to downtown Overland Park to watch the annual St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday. The parade began at 79th and Floyd streets. From there, it moved west...

When Rhianna Schuetz was getting a fresh start in Johnson County after escaping a domestic violence situation, she had no way of knowing that a flyer would help write the next chapter of her family’s life. At the time, she...