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Geary County and GCH still looking for solutions to save the hospital
Geary Community Hospital has been in trouble for a long time. At this point, this is not a disputed fact. However, the hospital continues to try to drag itself out of the hole and it has requested help from the…
Bel Aire council adopts legislative platform
The Bel Aire City Council ... adopted a legislative platform for 2020. Some of the issues discussed at the council workshop were sales tax, the tax lid, bonds, tax exemptions, concern for home rule and property-funded mandates, mental health and…
New Kansas law requires vehicle breathalyzers to take photos
The new law requires all breathalyzers installed in vehicles for people with a history of DUI's to take a photo of themselves while they're blowing into the machine, making it much harder for them to falsify the resultsWill White is…
Parsons to quit offering utility bill extensions
Starting in March, city of Parsons utility customers can no longer get an extension on their bills. The city made the announcement this week on its Facebook page, which generated lots of comments, mostly negative. City utility bills — which…
Neighbors want limit on group homes in east Wichita neighborhood
Charles Baughman is taking his neighborhood's concerns over group homes to state lawmakers. Baughman met with Representative Henry Helgerson Wednesday afternoon to discuss the concentration of group homes in his neighborhood near 13th and Edgemoor. Over the last seven years,…
Is that parking ticket you got in Wichita legal? Maybe, maybe not
Wichita has decided to reinstate a controversial parking enforcement practice that has been declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court covering four other states, city officials said. Wichita has decided that it won’t scrap a method known as “chalking” tires,…
Rural Kansans Ask Lawmakers To Fix Slow Internet, Bad Highways That Are Holding Them Back
Rural Kansas communities hope to see roads, internet and taxes addressed in the upcoming 2020 legislative session. But some voters in the state’s southwest corner are worried that these decade-old issues will again take a back seat. On a Saturday…
Study determines central Topeka could support a full-service grocery store
After the Dillons food market at 1400 S.W. Huntoon St. closed almost four years ago, residents of central Topeka’s neighborhoods were devastated. “I knew it was coming, because me and the manager, Bob, talked a lot,” said Emma Ray, who…
Dog park proposed for Marion County Lake
Marion County Park and Lake is the newest proposed site of a dog park Marion’s girl scouts have been working on for months. The original proposed site was south of the Marion High School football stadium. When that didn’t work,…
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