Overland Park KS

— The city of Olathe has extended its open enrollment window to Wednesday, Dec. 3, for city retirees facing significant premium increases in their health insurance costs next year. A retired city employee first reached out to KSHB 41 about this last month, citing a recent Olathe City Council meeting.

An Overland Park man was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Riley County, Kansas, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.

A recent incident involving a survey call about a proposed stadium has sparked a discussion on social media. A user reported receiving a call from an Illinois number conducting a survey about the stadium. The user, who was strongly opposed to the stadium, claimed that the call was abruptly terminated after expressing...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) - Around 60,000 Kansas City area children need Christmas toys, marking the highest demand ever in the metro. The Overland Park Convention Center says the surge represents a dramatic increase from just two weeks ago. Now, with less than 10 days until the Dec. 11 deadline, donations are...

Popular bookstore and bar Afterword Tavern & Shelves will soon close — at least for now. The spot in Kansas City’s Crossroads district, 1834 Grand Blvd., announced via social media that it would not operate at that location past Jan. 31. “After many grueling months of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘hope-nots’ — Afterword is closing...

In recent years, teens and young adults in Kansas City have been involved in high profile gun crimes and a slew of property crimes, leading community members and city leaders to express concerns about how the criminal justice system is working. “The juvenile justice system, it's a bit antiquated and...

Nearly two months after a jury recommended capital punishment, a Clay County judge on Monday formally sentenced Joshua Rocha to death for the 2022 killing of North Kansas City Police Officer Daniel Vasquez — a former Titan Protection “Avenue Angel” whose presence on Independence Avenue is remembered by many in the...

Waynette Renville remembers clearly the last time she and her three younger sisters had a conversation together. The four Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota women, all in different cities, arranged a group phone call on the night of Oct. 15, 2005. Cozied up in her pajamas, Waynette caught up with her siblings...

A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been identified as the lone death in a single vehicle accident over the weekend, according to Kansas City, Kansas police. Just before 7 a.m. Saturday, officers were dispatched to the 1300 block of North 38th Street, where they found Toby Maestas, 65, unresponsive in a grey SUV,...

Yesterday, a driver found themselves in a precarious situation when their Ford Focus hatchback got stuck on the hill at Lamar and Merriam Lane. In a moment of distress, a group of good Samaritans came to the rescue. A man in a truck initially tried to push the car up the hill, but when that proved unsuccessful, he,...