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ALL Boys and Girls, AGES 9-14, who attend public schools, private schools or are home-schooled are invited to participate in...

Over the weekend, thousands of bird enthusiasts gathered on the west side of Smithville Lake for Eagle Days. The celebration...

MONEY AND EMPLOYEES' PERSONAL ITEMS TAKEN The Subway sandwich shop in Platte City was robbed by a man with a...

SUSPECT LEFT BEFORE RECEIVING MONEY At approximately 10:42 a.m. today (Friday, Jan. 5), there was an attempted bank robbery at...

MFA Oil Company, a farmer-owned energy supply cooperative, has announced the acquisition of Platte-Clay Fuels, a self-service retail petroleum company...

DISCOVERED IN RURAL PLATTE COUNTY A “missing endangered alert” put out by the Kansas City Police Department last week ended...

SUSPECT DIES IN WRONG-WAY CRASH A series of three armed robberies occurred in the Northland in the early morning hours...

PLATTE COUNTY PROPOSING 464-BED JAIL IN DOWNTOWN PLATTE CITY The Platte County Commission has started the search for an architecture...

Ron Thiewes, Kansas City, reads The Landmark while on a hunting adventure in the snow in the Kenai Peninsula Borough...

DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPROVED BY CITY Live Nation Entertainment's plan to build a new amphitheater in Riverside is on track to...

Char Bar is  now open at Parkville, within the new Creekside development, east of I-435 at Hwy. 45. The exact...

RIVERSIDE COULD BE HOME TO 15,000 SEAT AMPHITHEATER For decades, Northlanders have traveled far and wide to attend concerts and...

MORE LEGAL TROUBLE FOR FORMER PLATTE CITY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR The now-former public works director for the City of Platte...

'Innovative solutions' pledged to changing times A nationwide college financial crisis recently came calling in Platte County when Park University...

This year, Zona Rosa has gained a multitude of new tenants, drawing people in for a renewed customer experience. “Zona...

COUNTY TO BEGIN WORK ON PROPOSAL FOR VOTERS A public safety committee has recommended to the county commission the proposal...

BEGINNING SALARY SET AT $200,000 Platte County will now have a county administrator. County commissioners announced the creation of the...

SHOOTING OCCURRED JUST OUTSIDE STORE An employee of the Rally House store in the Shops at Boardwalk center in Platte...

DOWNWARD TREND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE Although the population in Platte County is growing, the largest public school district in the...

LEAVENWORTH MAN CHARGED WITH DRUG-RELATED CRIME An arrest has been made in connection with the incident surrounding a fatal shooting...