About 150 residents — mostly black — left City Hall in frustration Tuesday after the Wichita City Council voted to put off a decision on where to put a new swimming pool in northeast Wichita. The decision to delay came after a three-hour debate that brought dozens of residents to the podium supporting McAdams Park — not Edgemoor Park — as the site where they want a new pool to be built. The city closed the McAdams pool early last year and plans to close five other public pools by 2023. That would leave three pools open, plus a new pool, [...]

Sedgwick County commissioners are poised to reverse a policy that allows county employees to use e-cigarettes in the courthouse. E-cig use — known by the slang term "vaping" — was approved by the commission in 2106 on a 3-2 vote. But the commission makeup has changed and supporters of the electronic nicotine-delivery devices now to be on the short side of a 3-2 split. "We don't allow smoking in our facilities," he said. "I don't know why we would allow e-cigarettes." (Read more: Politics & Government News |)