info2025-02-05T09:58:18-06:00February 5th, 2025|
With less than 500 days until the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Johnson County is exploring how to expand its transit system to help tackle one of the Kansas City metro’s biggest challenges that will come with the crowds next summer — including a potential bus service to the airport and a route from the county to the soccer festivities. Source: Joco 913 News
info2025-02-05T09:57:05-06:00February 5th, 2025|
Salina Regional Airport (SLN) will launch daily nonstop United Express flights to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) starting May 2, 2025. Operated by SkyWest Airlines using a 50-passenger Mitsubishi CRJ-200 jet, this new route expands Salina’s existing service to Denver and Chicago, connecting travelers to United Airlines’ global network. Source: KCLY Radio
info2025-02-05T09:56:06-06:00February 5th, 2025|
Author and founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns Charles Marohn addressed a packed conference room at the Kansas Leadership Center in downtown Wichita Tuesday night. “We have two conversations going on right now when it comes to housing,” Marohn said. “In one of these conversations, housing prices must fall. They must fall and they must fall dramatically in order to get people into homes. In the other conversation, housing prices cannot be allowed to fall, because if housing prices fall, all kinds of calamity results to our economy. This is the essence of what we call a housing trap.” Source: KLC [...]
info2025-02-05T09:54:37-06:00February 5th, 2025|
The Sedgwick County Register of Deeds Office has started a new online system to notify property owners of possible fraud. The Property Fraud Alert is a free service that county residents can subscribe to, and the system will notify them each time a document is recorded with their name on it. County officials said this won’t prevent fraud from happening, but it will provide an early warning system for property owners to take action as soon as possible. In many cases, victims of mortgage fraud or identity theft have been unaware that their home or identity has been stolen. Source: 101.3 [...]
info2025-02-05T09:53:40-06:00February 5th, 2025|
After just a couple years away, Ben Proctor is excited to return as Hesston’s superintendent. Last week, the board interviewed Proctor, who now works for the Kansas Department of Education, and Pete Bastian, who is the current superintendent of Belle Plaine schools. On Monday, Feb. 3, the board approved Proctor’s contract. He will take over as superintendent starting July 1. Proctor said he’s ready to return to the district. Source: Harvey County Now
info2025-02-05T09:51:48-06:00February 5th, 2025|
A fundraising effort is underway to change the skyline of Newton. The Newton Community Foundation and Newton Murals and Arts project seek to create a 128-foot-high, 7,600-square-foot mural on the west side of the Ardent Mills grain elevator, transforming the elevator‘s rounded grain bins into the spines of books. The mural will serve as a backdrop to Newton’s newly completed public library. Source: Harvey County Now
info2025-02-05T09:49:40-06:00February 5th, 2025|
Bonner Springs will consider expanding an established tax district to support the creation of a Mattel-anchored theme park near the Kansas Speedway. In 2017, the city created the Westgate Redevelopment District, covering about 75 acres at the southwest corner of State Avenue and North 118th Street. The tax increment financing district was created to support a $130 million mixed-use project developed by Triple R Properties LLC, but those plans never materialized. Arizona-based developer Epic Resort Destinations now requests that the City Council expand the existing TIF district by adding a combined 108 acres to the west and south, which would support [...]
info2025-02-05T09:48:07-06:00February 5th, 2025|
A town in Kansas is working to grow and is looking for new residents. Phil Griffith and Ben Cutler, both made names for themselves in the world of finance, are hoping to revive their hometown of Neodesha. Located about 100 miles from Wichita, Topeka, and Tulsa, Neodesha was the site of the first commercial oil well west of the Mississippi. Source: KSN-TV
info2025-02-05T09:46:56-06:00February 5th, 2025|
One of Parsons’ finest has dedicated 20 years to the city’s police department. Action 12’s Damara Hale spoke with Chief Deputy Dennis Dodd about being the change. “It’s someone who’s broken that cycle, where things are going good and they’re making a difference.” Since he was born, Deputy Chief Dennis Dodd has wanted to make a difference in the city where he was raised. Source: KSNF/KODE
info2025-02-05T09:44:39-06:00February 5th, 2025|
Topeka is expanding its restrictions on where homeless people can stay. At the City Council, on Tuesday, Feb. 4., the governing body approved new changes to a citywide camping ordinance. Two big changes are a 10-day limit for how long someone can camp on private property and no camping within 100 feet of public infrastructure. The city is also clarifying that language to include roads, utilities, government buildings schools and healthcare facilities. That was reduced from 500 feet under the previous ordinance. Source: KSNT 27 News
