1+ year, 2+ day ago   (542+ words) Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez resigned Tuesday, according to a city statement. A reason for his departure was not publicly shared. Donchez became Overland Park’s Police Chief in October 2014 after serving in the same role in Davenport, Iowa, for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (415+ words) Machinist Mason Grimmett criticized the Wichita Police Department’s reliance on high-speed equipment that reads, logs and converts into searchable files the license plate of everyone driving in range of nearly 200 specialized cameras in the city. “The Wichita Police Department, and…...

1+ year, 2+ day ago   (1758+ words) In recent public presentations to city leaders, Overland Park police officials have called shoplifting and retail crimes a “crisis.” The statement, made by Interim Police Chief Simon Happer during the Jan. 10 Overland Park City Council Public Safety Committee, followed two…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1513+ words) The Kansas City Council is taking a big swing with this August’s ballot. Voters will be presented with five ballot questions, including four bond measures totaling $1.7 billion and a sales tax renewal that would fund economic development. Those five questions…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (306+ words) Visit KCK will host nine free Spanish and English-language watch parties featuring countries with strong cultural ties to Kansas City, Kansas, including Mexico, Argentina and Austria. Memorial Hall in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, will host the watch parties across eight…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1780+ words) In January 2025, Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy got bad news from its charter school sponsor, the Missouri Charter Public School Commission. The Kansas City school — founded in 1999, named after a local minister and focused on "entrepreneurial leadership” — wasn’t being invited to…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (552+ words) Numerous landowners testified against the proposed line, arguing it would destroy prairie grasslands and interfere with ranching, farming and oil and gas operations....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1780+ words) When people see the small rectangular plots cordoned off next to Vanessa and Kenneth Robinson’s house, they sometimes ask what they are growing. But the sprouts of green aren’t a garden. They are a laboratory for testing and treating soil....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (952+ words) Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the main property tax bill passed by the Kansas Legislature, meaning no substantial property tax reform was passed this session. Lawmakers have gone home for the year, so they can’t come back and override the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1761+ words) Kansas City leaders are bidding to retain the Royals at a new downtown stadium two years after Jackson County voters overwhelmingly rejected a sales-tax-funded ballpark in the Crossroads. Not surprisingly, a familiar fight about taxpayer-subsidized stadiums has roared back to…...