OLATHE  — As dozens of local officials and advocates recently took a peek at Maura Heft’s new three-bedroom home, she proudly showed off her spacious kitchen with dark wood cabinets and joyfully explained that the…

City of Olathe Project RZ25-0007 — a 140-foot-tall cold storage warehouse bordering Lone Elm Park — is winding through the city’s approval process. The owner, the $18 billion corporation Lineage, Inc., expects public incentives: industrial…

Four Kansas school districts — Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Kansas City, Kansas, and Topeka — are now under federal investigation after a Washington dark money group filed a complaint.  On paper, they’ll say it’s about Title…

OLATHE — The Allen County Special Olympics Bowling Team competed Friday at the Kansas Special Olympics State Bowling Tournament, hosted by Olathe East Bowling Center. Each of the Allen Countians bowled at or above their…

TOPEKA — Attorneys representing the city of Olathe argued the Kansas Supreme Court’s derailment of an annexation pact between Spring Hill and Olathe could jeopardize similar alliances among municipalities guiding development throughout Kansas. On the…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An Olathe man has been sentenced for a 2018 hit-and-run crash that killed two people. Bradley Woodworth, 48, was sentenced Tuesday to 19½ years in prison after pleading guilty in February…

It’s time for “ghost guns” to disappear. We have long supported reasonable regulation and restrictions on the use of firearms. We agree with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who said “the right secured by the…

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An 18-year-old football player was charged Saturday in a shooting that wounded an administrator and a school resource officer at a suburban Kansas City high school. The Johnson County prosecutor’s office…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Four people were hospitalized Saturday when their house caught fire in Olathe, Kansas. Firefighters responding to the fire at about 8:15 a.m. found “significant fire conditions,” the Kansas City Star reported.…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Like a lot of teachers in the middle of a pandemic, Alisha Morris is anxious. Worried not only for students and teachers in her own district, which starts class next week,…