8 years ago
Small Kansas communities are benefiting from a fire truck and equipment program offered through the Kansas Forestry Service at Kansas State University. The Kansas Forestry Service, which is one of five state forestry agencies in the nation housed at a land-grant university, issues trucks and equipment through the Federal Excess Personal Property program and the FireFighter ...

8 years ago
A concert at the Bicentennial Center in Salina this week will be a little extra special for a 7-year-boy who is battling a life-threatening disease. Carter Hampton will get to meet, and hang out with his favorite band "Newsboys". Brave Young Hearts, a Colorado organization that helps grant adventures to children with terminal or life-threatening diseases, ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is considering a rule that would require records related to the selection of nominees for the high court and other judgeships to be made public. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports the rule change would require those records to be retained for at least three years after the nominating commission has made its decision. ...

8 years ago
Kansas hit its new, more pessimistic revenue projections for November, with tax collections exceeding estimates by $1.4 million. But the report Thursday from the state Department of Revenue did not significantly alter the state's gloomy budget picture. It still faces a projected shortfall of more than $345 million for the current fiscal year that began July ...

8 years ago
Kansas officials plan to reduce funding to providers of residential psychiatric care for children in a move expected to save about $350,000 from the state general fund. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services' announcement comes after Gov. Sam Brownback cut Medicaid reimbursement rates by 4 percent in May to help ...

8 years ago
Kansas State University will provide financial and management advice for farmers and ranchers in the struggling agricultural economy. It's was a tough year for farm income and the commodity outlook for 2017 is pessimistic as well. Operating loans for this past season are coming due soon, and experts say many growers can't make the payments. A series ...

8 years ago
The CEO of the company planning to acquire Topeka-based Westar Energy says the merged entity will have an office in Topeka. Terry Bassham, CEO of Kansas City Power and Light, said "Never say never, but I don't have a reason we wouldn't always have an office" in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://j.mp/2fWUeuZ) Bassham and Westar CEO ...

8 years ago
Two Kansas teens got a big surprise, and video, when the hound they were using to hunt raccoons treed a mountain lion last month in Wabaunsee County. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2gViyyg) reports that the Thanksgiving night sighting was one of three documented within 15 days in a 60-mile area. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism biologist ...

8 years ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2017-2018 school year.  GSCF has 27 unique scholarships that will distribute more than $90,000 in scholarships to local students this year.  The amount per scholarship ranges anywhere between $250-$10,000. Some scholarships are also renewable for up to 4 years. Each scholarship has a unique ...

8 years ago
The public is invited to the annual holiday open house at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home on Sunday, Dec. 4. The Abilene Municipal Band will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. in the Visitors Center Auditorium, followed by refreshments. Guests are invited to come early to shop and take advantage of a ...

8 years ago
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is among the sources behind Trump's unsubstantiated claim that "millions" of people voted illegally. Kellyanne Conway was Trump's campaign manager and mentioned Kobach twice as a source during an interview Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." Trump has claimed without providing evidence that ...