Kaylie McLaughlin
Reporter, Johnson County PostKaylie McLaughlin covers Overland Park and Olathe for the Johnson County Post. Email her at kaylie@johnsoncountypost.com
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Incumbent Curt Skoog beats former city council colleague Faris Farassati in the Overland Park mayoral race, while other moderate and left-leaning city council candidates pull ahead. -
Thousands of Royals fans are being surveyed about three proposed locations for a new ballpark and associated development: near downtown Kansas City, Clay County/North Kansas City and Johnson County/Overland Park. -
Indian Heights United Methodist Church plans to keep replacing its "All Are Welcome" sign, which has been vandalized and stolen multiple times since first going up in 2019. -
The $500,000 grant will help Overland Park make its streets safer. But several community members raised concerns that the Trump administration's terms require cooperation with immigration enforcement and compliance with executive orders banning diversity. -
Overland Park is set to replace what flag experts had ranked as one of the worst city flags with a new design that evokes the city’s park identity. The old flag features a plain, white background with Overland Park's name and slogan. -
Earlier this year, an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals acquired the mortgage on the Aspiria campus, seemingly confirming the team’s interest in the one-time Sprint headquarters as a possible stadium site. -
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach alleged that the Olathe, Shawnee Mission, and Kansas City, Kansas, school districts are violating federal law by not properly notifying parents of their students’ gender identity. -
A new World Cup countdown clock is up and running at the Scheels Soccer Complex in Overland Park. -
The Moody Hills neighborhood, once shaded with towering trees, is now lined with stump after stump. It’s part of a street reconstruction project that will also completely overhaul other infrastructure in the northern Overland Park neighborhood. -
The Fortune 500 company Fiserv wants to lease out two existing buildings at the former Sprint campus, with plans to employ 2,000 employees. It's requested what amounts to a roughly 40%, 10-year property tax rebate.
