Lucie Krisman

The new rules will stop the streaming of public comments at commission meetings and require residents to give their comments either in person or in writing. New chair Mike Kelly said that misinformation spread on livestreams could lose the county access to its YouTube channel.

After a months-long search, the local nonprofit announced this week that it had found a commercial space to hold this year’s holiday shop for low-income Johnson Countians.

The Roeland Park mayor is set to become the next chair of the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners, defeating current district 6 Commissioner Charlotte O’Hara. The two candidates held widely divergent views on a number of key issues, including election security, property taxes and climate change.

Following Friday's U.S. Supreme Court decision to eliminate the federal right to abortion access, Johnson Countians gathered in Overland Park to protest for reproductive rights. In Kansas, an upcoming constitutional amendment vote could determine the future of abortion access in the state.