Roxie Hammill

City Council veteran Curt Skoog will face off against political newcomer Mike Czinege in a race to choose a replacement for Carl Gerlach, who has been mayor for 16 years but decided to step down.

In Blue Valley and other districts, school board races that previously were tame affairs are increasingly lit up by hot-button national issues, including schools’ efforts at addressing race and diversity.

Chiropractors have become major purveyors of misinformation about COVID treatments and have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-vaccine events.

Johnson County Republican Chairman Fabian Shepard was accused of forcibly kissing a Wyandotte County GOP official against her will outside a political event on Aug. 20, according to a police report.

Sheriff Calvin Hayden said one inmate initially tested positive and then 7 others in the same cell also tested positive at the New Century Adult Detention Center outside Gardner.

Johnson County Commissioners are set to vote on a measure that would impose up to a $1,000 fine for someone deemed to have shot recklessly onto or over another's property.

Roughly 700 employees report to Sheriff Calvin Hayden and not to the Johnson County Manager, who issued a directive requiring the county's workforce to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing or submit proof of vaccination.

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said officers were justified in the shooting because they believed the man would have harmed a woman in his hotel room.

The website LawnStarter ranked the 150 biggest cities in the U.S. on metrics including walkability, average commute times and pedestrian safety. Overland Park came in 144th and Kansas City ranked 135th.

The Johnson County Commission on Thursday approved a public health order requiring masks be worn by everyone inside school buildings that enroll children up to and including 6th grade.