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KDHE secretary making push for emphasis on quality of Kansas drinking water
The top environmental and health official in the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly said understandable public attention on sustaining sufficient quantities of water in the agriculture-heavy state led to lack of focus on the quality of drinking water. “One of…
How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
The yellow school bus has remained largely unchanged since it first debuted in 1939. But while the buses look the same, their routes have grown infinitely more complex in the past 80 years, as the number of students, schools, and…
Rates & Financial Planning Workshop (Junction City) this Wednesday, August 14! (Sign up if you haven’t already)
The Kansas Department of Health Environment (KDHE) Capacity Development Program, in partnership with Wichita State Environmental Finance Center (EFC), Ranson Financial and Kansas Municipal Utilities (KMU), encourages representatives from your utility to attend an upcoming rate setting and financial planning…
Rolla offers free rent to help fill teaching positions
For some areas, school starts next week, and for many Kansas communities, the struggle isn’t bringing students into the schools but the teachers. USD 217 Superintendent John Barrett has worked all summer to fill two teaching positions. After making some…
CenturyLink is closing its JoCo office after getting millions in Kansas tax credits
Telephone and internet service provider CenturyLink received millions of dollars in Kansas economic development incentives. But apparently it wasn’t enough. CenturyLink informed employees in July of its decision not to renew a longstanding lease at 600 New Century Parkway in…
Hutchinson Police target repeat offenders with selective enforcement
Thursday night, the Hutchinson Police Department completed their first selective enforcement operation, resulting in multiple drug arrests, warrant arrests and citations. It was a combined effort with the department’s Repeat Offender Unit, two K9 teams, detectives and members of the…
Officer, television news reporter injured by visitor fleeing Sedgwick County jail
Three people were arrested Friday afternoon after a chaotic car chase across Wichita that started at the Sedgwick County Jail. Victor Walker, 28, was at the jail to pick up property from an inmate Friday afternoon when Sedgwick County Sheriff’s…
Towns near the Flint Hills Trail hope breweries and festivals will draw in visitors
Visitors to one of the state’s newest parks can hike or bike over rocky streams and travel through hills, wetlands, tallgrass prairie and hardwood forests. But the Flint Hills Trail - the longest nature trail in Kansas- also serves as…
Local truck traffic regs a hot issue
The ordinance regulating truck traffic through Arkansas City was brought under fire Tuesday during a city commission meeting. Jim Sybrant, owner of Ark City Warehouse on West Madison Avenue, brought his concerns and asked the commission to consider several revisions.…
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