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Clusters of empty land with a few small houses sit scattered along 151st Street in Overland Park. The long grass is bright green, with shrubs overgrown and tangled. While it’s vacant now, the city, a developer and landowner are looking at the property to potentially build a new workforce housing project in Overland Park’s Stanley annexation area. Read more: Local Kansas City Missouri & Kansas News |

Crews from Wyandotte County Public Works are continuing to respond to flooding, damage and obstructions as a result of overnight storms that brought between 7 and 11 inches of rain to Kansas City, Kansas, the Unified Government said in a press release Thursday. Washed-out streets, erosion, downed trees, hillside slides and road obstructions have been identified by responding crews. Read more: Local Kansas City Missouri & Kansas News |

A recent lawsuit against Prairie Village is now moving to the federal level. In late June, Prairie Village resident Marc Vianello filed the lawsuit in Johnson County District Court against Prairie Village shortly after its City Council approved a project to build a new City Hall and renovate its current municipal complex. The project has been in discussion for years and has become the latest to cause uproar among residents in the northeast Johnson County city. Read more: Local Kansas City Missouri & Kansas News |

Clay Center officially turned 150 years old on June 11th, 2025. Instead of holding a separate event on the city’s official birthday, the City and Grow Clay County decided they would honor this milestone by making it the heart of Clay Center’s annual Piotique celebration. This year’s theme will be Stars, Stripes, and Small Town Pride. Read more: KCLY Radio

Wichita school district leaders have given an initial go-ahead to put another bond issue to voters next year. The amount and details of a bond have not been decided. But school board members during a workshop Thursday approved a tentative two-year budget plan that would keep the district’s mill levy flat and seek a bond vote in November 2026. Read more: News

Like always, Olpe Downhome kept the southern Lyon County community hopping well into the night Saturday. And as usual, activities started around sunrise with breakfast, a bike ride and 5K run/walk to get the event started. Fishing, a vendor fair, car show, volleyball, music, food, a parade, wacky games and a parade were among a day’s worth of highlights. Read more: d2430

City officials in Ark City Friday said they’re continuing to pursue every possible avenue in helping local businesses to recover from a hail storm in June that caused extensive damage. Some affected business owners have shared struggles with handling the cost of recovery and fear they could be out of business. The June 17 storm, which produced baseball – to softball-sized hail measuring up to 3.75 inches in diameter and wind gusts reaching 86 miles per hour, caused widespread damage to both residential and commercial properties throughout the community. Read more: Local – Cowley Post

Wichita school district leaders have given an initial go-ahead to put another bond issue to voters next year. The amount and details of a bond have not been decided. But school board members during a workshop Thursday approved a tentative two-year budget plan that would keep the district’s mill levy flat and seek a bond vote in November 2026. Addi Lowell, chief financial officer for Wichita schools, said another bond issue is the only reasonable way to finance needed repairs and upgrades, and the timeline would work in the district’s favor. Read more: Wichita Kansas Local News, Crime & More |

Hand-carved signs welcome motorists to Arkansas City. Few people realize how much work went into the three new stone welcome signs at the entrances to Arkansas City. The wording and the logo are not just painted on, everything is actually carved into the stone, and all of that work was done by hand. Craig Wilson of Mulvane and his apprentice, Laura Macias, did the carving on all three of the stone signs that welcome visitors to Ark City. Wilson said once the design was completed and given to them, they drew it on the stone using a stencil that was provided [...]

Under K.S.A. 12-757, if owners of 20 percent of the total real property within specified distances from land to be rezoned sign a protest petition, the governing body must approve the rezoning by a supermajority. If a protesting owner is a tenant in common or a joint tenant with right of survivorship in a relevant tract, their signature requires that acreage proportionate to their ownership interest within the specified distance be counted toward the 20 percent needed for a successful protest petition. Read more: Kansas Court of Appeals