Johnson County pastor Adam Hamilton to announce decision on run for U.S. Senate
Church of the Resurrection Pastor Adam Hamilton has called a press conference Thursday in Prairie Village to announce his decision whether to run for U.S. Senate.
Amtrak’s Missouri River Runners to add capacity during World Cup
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner trains will increase capacity by 25% while World Cup soccer games are being played in Kansas City, the Missouri Department of Transportation announced today. Cars transferred from Illinois and Michigan will be added to both daily round trips between St. Louis and Kansas City by June 15 [...] Read More...
Kansas City, Missouri, unveils new option for how US 71 could be transformed
Kansas City, Missouri, unveiled new renderings showing how U.S. 71 Highway could be transformed to better reconnect East Side neighborhoods.
NWS confirms EF1 tornado caused damage near Tonganoxie
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down south of Tonganoxie Monday morning. Surveyors determined the EF1 tornado touched down around 3:30 a.m. and was on the ground for about 50 yards. The tornado began just west of US 24 Highway between Honey Creek Road and Hemphill Road.
Huge data center proposed on hundreds of acres in rural Johnson County – again
A little more than a month after rural Johnson County residents celebrated a win with the withdrawal of a massive data center proposal , another one popped up just 5 miles down the road. San Francisco-based data center developer Beale Infrastructure recently submitted a proposal to Gardner to build a 16-building campus on 300 acres near the northeast corner of 191st Street and...
Dash cam captures I-435 wrong-way driver narrowly missing other cars Wednesday
A dash camera captured the scary moments for a motorist early Wednesday morning on Interstate 435 in Overland Park as a wrong-way driver barreled down the interstate.
Bicyclist seriously injured after collision with city bus Wednesday in KCMO
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department responded Wednesday afternoon to a crash involving a bicycle and a Kansas City Area Transportation Authority bus.
Man charged in fatal Leavenworth County shooting Tuesday on Hillside Road
A 20-year-old Leavenworth man is charged after the Tuesday shooting death of a man inside a home Tuesday afternoon in Leavenworth County.
Driver sentenced, admitted to drinking ‘too much’ prior to fatal east KC crash
An Independence man was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for his role in a fatal car crash in east Kansas City that left one pedestrian dead. Jonathan Stone, 32, pleaded guilty Friday to driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury, according to a sentencing document. On Tuesday, a Jackson County judge sentenced Stone to seven years in the Missouri Department of...
Former hotel near Westport is now getting demolished. What’s next for site
A former hotel near Westport and the Country Club Plaza is now being demolished for a future surface parking lot , but a city permit for the lot won’t last forever. Demolition work has begun on the former Embassy Suites hotel site, off Broadway Boulevard at 220 W. 43rd St. The hotel property has been owned by the nearby Saint Luke’s hospital since the 1970s...
