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Planners to consider container facility
A Rose Hill man’s application to create a facility to modify shipping containers a mile south of Hillsboro will be reviewed Dec. 1 by the county planning and zoning board. Quentin Heidt wants to build a staging and operating location…
Bodycam video shows Leawood Police pull woman from burning SUV
Bodycam video released by Leawood Police show officers pulling a woman from a burning vehicle. A 51-year-old woman suffered severe burns Monday afternoon after her SUV crashed and caught fire near the Tomahawk Creek trailhead, just east of Tomahawk Creek…
Task force seeks retail ban on single-use bags, Dillons working on phased elimination
Lori Lawrence, of Bag Free Wichita, and Sheila Regehr, of Dillons Food Stores based in Hutchinson, outlined on the Kansas Reflector podcast strategies aimed at taking a bite out of demand and supply of plastic bags. Lawrence is part of…
Future of Kansas town’s library uncertain after outpouring of support at commission meeting
Following public outcry about censorship, the St. Marys City Commission decided to table a vote on renewing the Pottawatomie Wabaunsee Regional Library’s lease. The lease is under threat because the library refused to comply with the commission’s request to remove…
Lawrence City Commission wants to consider a moratorium for rule on downtown liquor sales
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday deferred an amendment to city code that would have allowed John Brown’s Underground to keep operating — but they want to look at ways to expand the opportunity to other businesses, too. A long-standing city…
Fed’s Daly sees rates rising at least another percentage point as ‘pausing is off the table’
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said Wednesday she expects the central bank to raise interest rates at least another percentage point, and possibly more, before it can pause to evaluate how the inflation fight is going. Daly told…
Lenexa taking Republic to court over trash pickup problems
Complaints about missed trash collections and slow response to customers by Republic Services are on the rise in Lenexa — so much so that the city has issued a citation. Complaints have been increasing the past few months about failures…
Bicyclist injured in crash on wet Olathe trail sues, says city didn’t maintain path
A bicyclist is suing the City of Olathe for $75,000 after crashing on a city trail, according to documents filed in Johnson County District Court earlier this month. According to court documents, Joyce Coker-Dreier was riding her bike along Meadow…
Hesston Grocery Store plans unveiled
Hesston’s downtown will be reshaped by an 18,000-square-foot grocery store and long-promised TEFFI dollars. That’s according to the plan members of the Beneficient Company and its Beneficient Heartland Foundation presented at the Hesston City Council meeting Monday night. “The great…
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