Salt Lake-based Woodbury Corp. is under contract to buy the former Great Mall of the Great Plains property in Olathe. It plans a $300 million mixed-use, sports- and entertainment-oriented development.
Former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback loomed large in a Tuesday debate between the candidates for governor - Kris Kobach and Laura Kelly - in a debate in Wichita sponsored by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters.
Before he dropped out of the KC mayor’s race to seek treatment for PTSD, Jason Kander was positioned to command an overwhelming fundraising advantage, with more than $500,000 collected in just one quarter.
The City of Prairie Village is advancing a proposed LGBTQ anti-discrimination ordinance after hearing from more than two dozen residents and other speakers
The Overland Park Council has rejected a request to negotiate tax incentives for the Brookridge golf course redevelopment. The huge project, proposed for southeast of 103rd and Antioch, remains in doubt.
President Donald Trump has frequently blasted criticism of police, but a candidate he appeared with earlier this month liked posts on Facebook decrying police as criminals and cowards.
Claire McCaskill wants her supporters to talk about health care and pre-existing conditions. Josh Hawley says one of her supporters crossed the line by bringing Hawley’s family into the discussion.
Brandon Woodard, a Democrat running for a Kansas House seat representing parts of Lenexa and Olathe, was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol twice. Previously, he’d only acknowledged the first charge.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill raised more than double the amount of her GOP opponent Josh Hawley from July through September. She’s spending money at an even quicker rate.
CBS Evening News will broadcast from the National World War I Museum on Monday as the network looks at Missouri’s role in midterm elections. Last week, NBC’s Lester Holt broadcast live from the museum.
A lawsuit filed Monday alleges Kansas violates the constitutional rights of transgender individuals by refusing to update the sex on their birth certificates to correspond with their gender identities.
National political observers are saying the wave that may be taking over politics in 2018 is neither red nor blue. It’s pink. And in Johnson County, four men incumbents are being challenged by four women.
As their neck-and-neck race for the U.S. senate continues, both Claire McCaskill and Josh Hawley are working to save Mid Continent Nail, a manufacturer in Poplar Bluff struggling under Trump’s steel tariffs.
A majority of Missouri leaders in the Missouri Influencers project were in favor of the state joining 30 other states that have legalized marijuana for medical use. But dissenters include a toxicologist.
As part of the Missouri Influencers series, the panel of state leaders and politicians shared their thoughts on legalizing medical marijuana. The question will be on the November ballot.
Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott has resigned over unspecified inappropriate comments, complicating what was already a difficult re-election fight for Gov. Bill Walker.
Brazil's federal police are recommending in a new case that President Michel Temer be put on trial for corruption, money laundering and criminal association.
A pimp who gained notoriety for an HBO series about his brothel business and fashioned himself as a Donald Trump-style Republican candidate for the state Legislature was found dead hours after his 72nd birthday bash.
Residents in the Wycliff and Pinehurst Estates neighborhoods in Overland Park oppose plans to redevelop the Brookridge golf course at 103rd Street and Antioch Road. Plans call for a large mixed-use project but the financing remains in doubt.
