Overland Park Kansas

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.

Kansas City-area members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority — some new arrivals since the U.S. evacuation in 2021 — are creating a community and celebrating traditions here while trying to call attention to the risk of genocide back in Afghanistan.

Although the Overland Park Farmers Market — which runs Saturdays from mid-April to December — has been established for the past 40 years, this is its first year competing in the annual contest, which drew more than 7,000 competitors.

In January 2018, Overland Park police officer Clayton Jenison shot and killed 17-year-old John Albers as the teenager backed his family minivan out of his garage. The Washington Post has taken a deep dive into the ensuing investigation.

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.

The vote to unionize the store on the Country Club Plaza was a tie, which counts as a loss, according to National Labor Relations Board rules. But pro-union workers say three votes were contested and could count in their favor.

After a wave of anti-Asian violence across the country last spring, Kansas City came together to show solidarity for local Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Is the support holding up?

Dozens of windows were smashed and items taken from cars in the Corbin Park area early Wednesday morning, one day after a similar string of break-ins in Grandview.