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Shawnee News

Shawnee is overhauling the area in front of its city hall downtown with the hopes that the improvements foster a sense of community and enhance pedestrian and traffic safety. Next week, work is expected to be complete on phase one...
The Shawnee Planning Commission has approved a new housing subdivision consisting mostly of duplexes on the southwestern side of the city. On May 5, the planning commission voted 8-0 to approve the rezoning and preliminary development plan for Cedar Trace,...
One adult has non-life-threatening injuries after being rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 435 near Midland Drive in Shawnee on Friday afternoon. The crash happened during a brief downpour at about 12:10 p.m. Friday in the northbound lanes of I-435...
As the Republican-controlled Congress focuses on possible cuts to Medicaid, Johnson County residents and health care providers across Kansas worry about how deep such cuts may go. Earlier this month, the GOP-led House of Representatives and Senate each passed budget...
A 10-foot-deep sinkhole on the Mill Valley High School campus in Shawnee is getting repaired after underground corrugated pipes failed, the city says. The Shawnee City Council on Monday voted 7-0 to approve a contract and materials needed to fill...
The Shawnee Planning Commission gave the green light to a proposed multifamily development that spans dozens of buildings on nearly 27 acres of land near Maranatha Christian Academy in western Shawnee. On Monday, the commission voted 9-0 to recommend approval...
An Overland Park teenager will spend the next four years in prison for stabbing two people in Shawnee, including breaking into a house and attacking his ex-girlfriend and another teen. On Friday in Johnson County District Court, Christopher Curtis was...
A Japan-based home goods retailer appears to have set its sights on Johnson County. Two new stores are in the works for Daiso in Johnson County — one in Shawnee and one in Olathe. Both stores will open later this year ...
A divided Shawnee City Council this week gave the OK to use city economic development money to help Friction Beer Co. renovate the top floor of its downtown storefront into an events space. On Monday, the city council voted 5-4...
A Shawnee man was killed in a crash on Interstate 435 in Wyandotte County on Tuesday afternoon. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Jacob Robert Thomas Rhodes, 21, of Shawnee, was killed in a single-vehicle crash at about 1:15 p.m. According to...
When Eric Sweeney landed his first restaurant job in 1972, he didn’t know what was in store for the restaurant — or for him — in the coming decades. At 12 years old, Sweeney said he already had an entrepreneurial...
From a new city administrator to park renovations, 2024 was a time of evolution and growth for the city of Shawnee, with more changes on the way. That was the message underlying Mayor Micky Sandifer's State of the City address,...