Overland Park Kansas

Overland Park is updating city codes to make space for planned native landscapes, which have long been banned as "weeds." That could mean front yard gardens featuring milkweed, blue sage, native flowers and other species that once dominated the northeastern Kansas landscape.

The proliferation of traditional grass lawns have brought problems like flooding, river contamination and pests. But the local ordinances and the rules of homeowners’ associations across the Kansas City area practically insist on Euro-style turf.

Olathe-based Pepper Cave, owned by Justin Bale, was suspended indefinitely in apparent response to complaints about Bale’s social media activity, which in recent days has been filled with blatant antisemitic invective. Bale responded to the suspension by praising Hitler.

Wiener Kitchen, which began as a food truck at the Overland Park Farmers Market, makes a hot dog from roasted cauliflower, walnut and wild rice. It was named one of PETA's 10 top vegan hot dogs of summer 2023.

Sales of Brendan Curran's "Ted Lasso"-themed T-shirt soared when Jason Sudeikis, Curran's Shawnee Mission West basketball teammate, wore them on the Emmy award-wining series. He also wore them off the set while promoting the show. Curran expects sales to keep growing with the expansion into "Ted Lasso" merchandise.

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.

After spending six years as the mayor of Roeland Park, Kansas, Mike Kelly was elected in November to be the next chairman of the Johnson County Commission. Just three months into the job, he's set to give his first State of the County address next week.

The Kansas Department of Transportation is slated to remove the century-old bur oak tree, which is located at the southwest corner of 119th Street and U.S. 69, to make room for the 69Express toll lane project.

For almost 30 years, TableTop Game and Hobby and its sister shop Cardbord Corner Café have created a second home to a growing community of tabletop and RPG enthusiasts. For some, it's even the reason why they moved to Kansas City in the first place. "This is our tavern table," one regular says.

The investigation by the Office of the Disciplinary Administrator was opened following a complaint by Sheila Albers, whose teenage son John was shot and killed by Overland Park police in 2018.

The campaign will ultimately spend $1 billion to humanize Jesus and Christianity, asking “How did the world's greatest love story become known as a hate group?” The ads are funded, in part, by Hobby Lobby, known for its advocacy of conservative causes.

Finalmente la campaña gastará $1.000 millones de dólares para humanizar a Jesús y al cristianismo, preguntándose "¿Cómo la mejor historia de amor del mundo llegó a ser conocida como un grupo de odio?" Los anuncios están financiados, en parte, por Hobby Lobby, conocida por su apoyo a causas más conservadoras.