Overland Park KS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patsy Cline’s final performance took place 63 years ago this week in Kansas City, Kansas. Cline headlined a benefit show for a radio DJ’s family at Memorial Hall on March 3, 1963. She stayed the night at the former Town House Hotel, now an apartment for seniors.

A Wisconsin-based burger franchise is coming soon to Kansas City’s Northland. Culver’s, known for its butter burgers (burgers with buttered buns), cheese curds and frozen custard, plans to open at Zona Rosa, 7160 NW Barry Road , according to Culver’s restaurant locator. Its opening will mark the ninth location in...

Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers — a popular fast food chain with locations across the country — has closed a Kansas City location. The Martin City spot at 13628 Washington St. closed Feb. 26, according to signs posted around the restaurant. The restaurant was owned by franchise M&M Custard LLC, an Overland...

Some of Johnson County’s youngest students may get a new place to learn as early as the 2027 school year as the Shawnee Mission School District moves forward with its proposal to build a new early childhood education center. The center will be built at the former Katherine Carpenter Elementary School site , located...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Kansas City, Missouri – A colder push of air sliding into the central Plains ahead of St. Patrick’s Day could turn part of an active storm track into accumulating snow across eastern Kansas and northern...

Over the years, Darron Edwards’ south Kansas City congregation has made sure students have clean clothes and school supplies, distributed food to stave off hunger among those in need and provided mental health resources to churchgoers. But all the while, Edwards has also seen families — perhaps headed by teachers,...

GARDNER, Kan. (KCTV) - A car crashed through the front window of La Carreta Mexican Restaurant in Gardner, police say. The Gardner Police Department says it responded to the restaurant at 949 E. Lincoln Ln., around 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3. Investigators believe the crash was an accident involving...

More than 70 people filled KC Craft Ramen on Monday night, crowding around tables and lining the walls. They were not there for ramen. At the center of the room sat a 160-pound bluefin tuna stretched across a prep table, its silvery body nearly spanning the length of the space. For one evening, the restaurant...

The Martin City Community Improvement District committee held its monthly meeting Feb. 19, which also acted as a public hearing for the property at 1 E 135th Street. Owner Danny Baker is converting the former Martin City Golf Center into a high-end luxury used car dealership (above $200,000). The city’s ordinance for...

Not long after protests against police brutality erupted around the country following the 2020 public killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, there was an incident deemed by some as a symbolic lynching in a public park near Kansas City’s West Bottoms. A 200-pound,...