9 years ago
The first accumulating snow of the season is forecast to fall in Central Kansas later this week. According to the National Weather Service, an approaching storm system will bring increasing chances for snow in the early morning hours on Wednesday. Snow will spread eastward across the area during the day, before diminishing on in evening. Gusty northeast ...

9 years ago
The 1st Infantry Division Band will once again join forces with the Junction City Community Band for a free holiday concert. The holiday revue will begin at 7:30 p.m. each night, with doors opening at 7 p.m. Victor Wong, director of the Junction City Community Band, and Frank Tracz, professor of music and director of bands ...

9 years ago
The only planned public hearing on the biggest utility merger in Kansas history is scheduled for Monday in suburban Topeka. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/2fUGSPV) the Kansas Corporation Commission has scheduled Monday evening at a Topeka-area high school as the single public hearing on the proposed $12.2 billion acquisition of Westar by Great Plains Energy, the ...

9 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 ...

9 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, ...

9 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. ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...