Lucie Krisman

Candidates for the Blue Valley Board of Education who campaigned as the “pro-public education” slate won their races. Shawnee Mission School District board candidates who voiced strong support for the district’s approach to diversity and equity also won comfortably.

Joseph Heidesch was arrested in October 2021 and charged with 30 felony counts for hiding a camera in his office and watching students change. This summer was sentenced to five years and eight months in a Kansas prison.

Johnson Countians who want to cast ballots early have a number of options, including in-person advanced voting, drop boxes and by mail.

The subject of an award-winning documentary, Sonia Warshawski survived Nazi concentration camps before making it to Kansas City. John's Tailoring, which she took over in 1989 after her husband passed away, has been operating in the area for more than six decades.

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.