11 years ago
About 100 Boy Scouts are back at their southern Colorado camp after being evacuated because of flooding. The scouts left the Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch on school buses and sheriff's vehicles before dawn Tuesday after rain caused a creek on the property near Walsenburg to rise. They went to a Red Cross shelter in ...

11 years ago
It's been a quiet year for tornadoes in Kansas and weather experts are expecting that trend to continue. The National Weather Service says the state recorded 33 tornadoes by the end of June, the lowest number since 30 were recorded in 1994. Meteorologist Chance Hayes in Wichita says most of the Great Plains ...

11 years ago
Strong wind that blew through central and northeast Kansas left trees down and created power outages but no serious injuries have been reported. Winds reaching more than 60 mph, accompanied by rain and hail hit the state late Monday and early Tuesday. Westar reported up to 25,000 customers without power after the storm but that ...

11 years ago
A groundbreaking for the Kansas State University Bulk Solids Innovation Center is set for this Thursday. The center is the project of Kansas State University with partners the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, Salina Economic Development Corporation, U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, the state of Kansas and the city of Salina. Expected completion ...

11 years ago
Kansas State Board of Education members face a decision about how much data to release from statewide math and reading tests after public schools faced problems administering the exams. The board's discussion Tuesday was a response to cyberattacks and glitches in the computerized testing system earlier this year. The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the ...

11 years ago
The University of Kansas has a new director of news and media relations, and she previously held a similar job at archrival Kansas State University. KU announced Monday that Erinn Barcomb-Peterson had started the director's job on the Lawrence campus after nine years at Kansas State. Barcomb-Peterson holds a journalism degree from the University of Kansas. She ...

11 years ago
The latest government crop update shows the Kansas wheat harvest is making slow progress. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 70 percent of the wheat has now been harvested, compared with an early-July average of 88 percent. The agency says that some cutting was delayed by the application of herbicides to control weeds. The condition ...

11 years ago
A national gun-control group says it is planning to challenge a Kansas law declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate guns manufactured, sold and kept only in the state. The Washington-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced Monday that it would file a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the state law. The Kansas law ...

11 years ago
A northern Kansas man's troubles may go beyond a burned-out mobile home after firefighters reported finding an apparent marijuana-growing operation inside the structure. The fire broke out around 1 a.m. Saturday in the Clay County town of Wakefield. Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn says firefighters doused the flames and notified his office after coming across what appeared ...

11 years ago
A Solomon man is injured after an SUV hits the motorcycle he was riding. The Saline County Sheriff's office reports that Pamela Misker of Indiana was westbound on Old 40 Highway at 7:10pm on July 3rd, when she attempted to make a left hand turn onto Simpson Road in front of an eastbound motorcycle. The collision threw ...

11 years ago
The federal government has refused to accept a tract of suburban Wichita land into trust so an Indian tribe can build a casino there. The Kansas Attorney General's Office said Monday that the Interior Department rejected a request from the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma to take the land into trust. The Wyandotte Nation bought the tract ...