Blue Valley Area

The number of mental health-related 911 calls continues to climb in northeast Johnson County. And to meet that growing need, Johnson County Mental Health is deploying a second mental health co-responder to assist law enforcement agencies in the Shawnee...

An increase in state funding this year may mean increased services or shorter wait times for people who use the Johnson County Mental Health Centers. The Johnson County Commission increased staffing of four positions Thursday in an effort to keep...

The Kansas legislature's latest K-12 funding plan does not meet the "adequacy" threshold required by the state constitution — but it could be made constitutional with relatively straightforward changes, the Kansas Supreme Court said in a ruling issued Monday...

SM North's Aaron Davidson named Kansas cross country coach of the year. SM North cross country coach Aaron Davidson this weekend accepted the Kansas Cross Country and Track and Field Coaches Association's cross country coach of the year award....

Overland Park will hold two meetings next Tuesday looking for input on how the city can improve pedestrian access and multi-modal transportation in one of the city's busiest corridors. Since last fall, the city has been in the planning stages...

Walking 66 miles from Merriam to Topeka? The idea was audacious. But in Heather Ousley’s opinion, what was happening to Kansas schools was audacious, too. For months, she’d endured a steady steam of bad news: Growing classroom sizes at her...

All four of the northeast Johnson County representatives in the Kansas House voted against a controversial education funding approach that will scrap the current state funding formula in favor of block grants for the next two years. The measure narrowly...

Nancy Fritz was in Topeka all weekend - along with hundreds of Kansas teachers - watching the final education bill unfold in the capitol. From the gallery she heard legislators utter some “unkind” words about teachers. But she was...

The Kansas Supreme Court this morning issued its long-awaited ruling in the Gannon case, which challenged whether the state is adequately funding public schools, by sending that question back to lower court with a new guidance on what “adequacy”...