Lenexa

Mayor Michael Boehm will retire after serving five terms as Lenexa's mayor — the longest serving mayor in the city's history. Since he took office, the city's population has grown by nearly 20,000 residents and the downtown has been reimagined.

Asian American community groups and businesses across Kansas City are welcoming in the Year of the Rabbit — or the Year of the Cat, depending on the country. No matter which animal you're celebrating, there's plenty to do for the Lunar New Year.

A sweet smell is filling the air in Old Town Lenexa as Jude’s Rum Cakes begins baking thousands of tasty treats for the holiday season. Plus: You can thank a group of scrappy Kansas City women for the invention of the Crock-Pot as we know it today.

From their small storefront in Old Town Lenexa, Jude’s Rum Cakes has been turning out thousands of tasty treats that ship around the country. It all started with a bottle of Panama rum and one family recipe.

Kansas City is known for a lot of things, from barbecue to jazz. Here are some of our region's lesser-known points of hometown pride.

Juneteenth, which traditionally marks the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, was declared a federal holiday in 2021. Food traditions have grown with the holiday, and there are plenty of ways to honor Juneteenth with Kansas City chefs and restaurants.

Most recently, the Lenexa, Kansas-based humanitarian aid organization sent $15 million in medical supplies to a warehouse in Slovakia, where a local organization will deliver it across the border to Ukraine.

The board will advise Lenexa Police on issues like potential bias in policing, use of force, and responses to mental health crises. Its formation comes at a time when police agencies in Johnson County and beyond are facing calls for more transparency and public engagement.

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

There’s a sort of food that just seems right this time of year, as nights grow cool but the days are still warm. KCUR's food critics have great suggestions for the in-between.

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.

Everyone deserves a safe place to swim, but we live in a region of pool haves and have-nots: This summer there are zero public pools open in Kansas City, Kansas, while Lenexa has three pools for a third of the population.