Shawnee Mission Area

The Rio Theatre in downtown Overland Park could soon be returned to its former glory as a single-screen independent movie house, though the exact timeline is unclear. The historic theater first opened on Christmas Day in 1946, but it’s been...

Overland Park lawyer and Shawnee Mission North grad David Graham says he doesn’t want to be the Libertarian spoiler in the neck-and-neck Kansas U.S. Senate race between Adam Hamilton and Roger Marshall. But he may become one anyway. The founder of...

By Grace Hills, Stephen Koranda  Republican incumbent U.S. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton faced off Wednesday evening in their final scheduled debate before Election Day. With less than two weeks left, what’s usually a sleepy, safe-for-Republicans Senate...

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,...

There's a lot on the Nov. 3 ballot, from a high-profile Senate contest to deciding who will be Prairie Village's next mayor. Not to mention 18 judicial retention votes (what's that, you ask?) and a vote on a constitutional amendment...

For decades, the Olathe Girls Softball Association’s partnership with the city provided fields and programming for generations of players. Now, Olathe is reconsidering how that relationship should work, raising concerns among some coaches and association leaders about the future accessibility...

Johnson Countians have hit the polls early this year, resulting in a turnout for the first day of advance midterm voting that approaches the first day in the 2024 presidential election year. Figures posted on Facebook by the county election...

There are four seats on the Nov. 3 ballot for the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners, including races for chair and three commission districts. The seven-member county commission is Johnson County's top governing body, enacting local legislation, setting the...

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...

By Grace Hills  While defending incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall’s record of suing hundreds of his former patients at a rally near Wichita Monday, President Donald Trump evoked an antisemitic slur — one he used in the past and...

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...

Early voting has started, and we're in the home stretch ahead of the Nov. 3 election. It's a much-watched election, featuring races up and down the ballot at all levels of government impacting Johnson Countians — from a U.S. Senate...