Overland Park KS

Students at two Platte City R-III schools were evacuated Friday morning after contractors hit gas lines at two locations near the schools. Overland Park firefighters respond to apartment fire that injured one person. Updated: 45 minutes ago. |. One person was hospitalized due to a fire at Stonebriar Woods Apartments...

Three men from Kansas charged with stealing thousands of dollars in fishing equipment and other items from boats at three Lake Norfork marinas have entered not guilty pleas to the charges. Two nineteen-year-olds, Dane Phillip Christensen of Lenexa and Michael Sabin from Gardner and 20-year-old Lukas Trey Helm of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 29, 2025. KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Mayor Quinton Lucas today denounced the mid-decade redistricting map released this Friday afternoon before a holiday by Governor Mike Kehoe under pressure from DC special interests. The map would split Kansas City into three large and distinct...

A woman died after being shot late Saturday in the Blue Hills neighborhood of Kansas City, a police spokeswoman said. Officers responded around 10:15 p.m. to investigate a report of gunshots being fired in the 5200 block of Euclid Avenue. While on their way, the officers were informed that someone had been shot, said...

The Quindaro Ruins site in Kansas City, Kansas is scheduled for improvements ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Independence police officers fatally shot a man while investigating a disturbance at an apartment building early Sunday, according to a spokesman for the Eastern Jackson County Police Involved Incident Team. Officers responded to a call about a disturbance around 1 a.m. near 11600 E. Truman Road , said Lee’s Summit...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Independence Police Department says a man was killed on Saturday as he tried to escape arrest. According to a statement from IPD, the situation began around 8:20 p.m. on August 30 when officers were called to the 15400 block of E. 42nd Terrace for a reported hit-and-run.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City, Mo. is set to welcome yet another massive data center campus to town, Port KC announced on Aug. 26. The “transformative” $100 billion project will be built on 379 acres within an existing mega site in the city’s Northland, near Kansas City International Airport.

Closed to the public for nearly two decades so that its poisoned soil could be cleansed of toxic chemicals, Kansas City’s long-neglected Riverfront Park could be on the verge of a bright future. The park — which city officials have largely forgotten for the past 22 years — has gained some important advocates in...

Kansas City’s history of racial division and injustice is painful and often appalling. But the city now has an opportunity through the Mayor’s Commission on Reparations to show other cities — and maybe the nation itself — how to begin repairing the vast damage inflicted on Black citizens by discriminatory, foolish,...