Overland Park News

Overland Park Police have ramped up bike patrols around city parks and trails following multiple reported assaults, including a sexual assault. The three reported assaults are at different parks and at different times of day, dating back to early August,...

Where diners once sipped coffee and devoured stacks of pancakes, they’re now enjoying Indian dishes — some of which are dusted with gold. Florida-born eatery Jala Indian Cuisine recently made its Johnson County debut, in the former Another Broken Egg...

The sun beat down on a warm fall morning in downtown Overland Park as local officials and city leaders alike lined up with shovels in their hands. They were there to break ground on another multi-story, mixed-use building in downtown...

Closed down since the pandemic, the historic, single-screen Rio Theatre in downtown Overland Park could soon get new life and new owners — with a familiar famous face potentially in the mix. At 7204 W. 80th St., the theatre first...

Tara Levin and her family moved to Blue Valley nearly a decade ago just for a chance to register her daughter into the district’s Chinese Immersion Program — she got in and the family made a 13-year commitment to...

Part of 95th Street in northern Overland Park is closed for the foreseeable future to allow the final part of a multi-year, four-phase stormwater improvement project to proceed. As of last week, 95th Street is closed near Moody Park Drive...

Things get busy bright and early at 7522 W. 80th St. in downtown Overland Park. Within just an hour of the shop’s opening for the day on a morning last week, a line stretched to the door. As Roger Hodgson...

Four candidates vying for two seats representing parts of Olathe, Overland Park and Spring Hill in southwestern Johnson County laid out their priorities in a live forum hosted by the Johnson County Post on Oct. 7. The Post is hosting...

Shawnee Mission’s Board of Education is weighing two options for an upcoming March bond that would fund the rebuilding of more aging elementary schools and a new career and technical education center.  But the proposals' outlines, presented to the school...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that a Johnson County man has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison for running one of the largest telemedicine schemes ever. Brett Blackman, 43, owned and ran HealthSplash as its CEO....

Iconic '90s toy store Toys "R" Us is making a comeback to an Overland Park mall. Oak Park Mall announced on its Instagram account this week that the big-box toy retailer known for its Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot and catchy...

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...