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With Gardner Edgerton and Shawnee Mission Northwest entering Friday night's Class 6A Sectional playoff game at the Gardner District Activity Complex as prolific scorers, it came as no surprise that the outcome boiled down to a key defensive stop. A...

Vickie Taulbert and her husband, Mike, who are both in their 70s, have lived in their current northern Overland Park neighborhood for upwards of 40 years. Originally attracted to the area — around 67th Street and Santa Fe, across the...

Olathe-based Brown Suga is currently on the move, in more ways than one. In November 2024, the cookie shop just four years in business at the time, caught a victory in Kansas City’s AltCap Your Biz pitch competition, which gives...

Delivery drones for Amazon will soon be taking to the skies in parts of Shawnee as part of a program launching across the U.S. On Monday, Shawnee city staff alerted the Shawnee City Council to Amazon's plans to deploy Prime...

A well known diner chain has shuttered one of its Johnson County locations. South Carolina-based Denny’s recently closed its Merriam location, with signage removed from the building and a note on the door notifying customers of the closure. Denny’s was at...

Blake Le Donovan Brown; Paul Callaghan Steinberg; Kimberly (Kim) Simpson; Thomas “Tom” John Johnston; Nazar Goro; Francis “Frank” L. Lavery; Norma Jean McCloud; Anne Marie Flynn; Glenn M. Read; Anne Victor Lopez; Lisa Ann Everhart; Glenda Dee Brocker; ...

Editor’s note: This story is the final of a four-part series about housing challenges in Johnson County. Read our first part introducing the county’s housing shortage here. Read our second part about costs for developers to build housing here, and...

Johnson County’s vote totals for this year’s municipal and school elections were certified Thursday and with the exception of the race for Spring Hill mayor there were no upsets or changes from the unofficial final results posted last Tuesday...

Keith Davenport has scraped by with a win over incumbent Greg Chapman for a seat on the Gardner Edgerton school board. However, Davenport says he will not fill the seat come January. That's because he no longer lives in the...

Two years after the city gave its stamp of approval, construction has officially started at The Rocks redevelopment site in Roeland Park. Located off of 48th Street and Roe Parkway, The Rocks is a $75M mixed-use redevelopment project featuring a...

Siddiq Ashraf knows there's a local demand for authentic Pakistani cuisine. It’s something he said he’s noticed himself while living in the Kansas City area. If he wants to find his favorite Pakistani dishes, he said, he’s used to traveling...

A New Mexico man will spend more than 51 years in prison for the 2023 murder of a Gardner woman at a hotel. On Oct. 29 in Johnson County District Court, Franklin Bluelake, 59, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced...