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To modernize parking enforcement, Lawrence city manager proposes increasing cost of parking and tickets downtown
City leaders agree that the coin-fed meters and other outdated devices used to enforce parking rules downtown need to be modernized, but how much parking rates and tickets should increase next year to fund that modernization is up for debate.…
Proposed raise for Lawrence city commissioners would make pay among highest in state
If a proposed pay raise for Lawrence city commissioners is approved, it would move commissioners from among the lowest-paid elected city leaders in the state to among the highest, trailing only Wichita, which has about four times the population of…
Junction City looks to renew special sales tax for debt relief
Junction City officials will look to renew a special sales tax for debt relief purposes. City Finance Director Lindsay Miller presented an option to place a special question on the Nov. 5 general election ballot during Tuesday night’s city commission…
Kansas A to Z: ‘X’ is for Kansas Expocentre
TOPEKA — Rock concerts, horse shows, sporting events and demolition derbies are among the wide variety of entertaining activities offered by Topeka’s Kansas Expocentre. “Went there for monster trucks and had a wonderful time,” Danielle Goodwin wrote Jan. 5 on…
UPDATED: Peabody sandbags downtown; Marion water contaminated but deemed safe
Volunteers, mainly from Peabody fire department, sandbagged a block’s worth of downtown stores Saturday afternoon after an unrelenting thunderstorm dropped nearly nine inches of rain and sent water into as many as a dozen businesses there. Meanwhile, in Marion, low…
American State Bank announces $5,000 contest winner
American State Bank & Trust held its very first “Growing for Good” contest this spring and has announced the winner. The city of Macksville will receive a $5,000 prize to help improve its city park. “The idea of the contest…
President Trump OKs disaster funds for parts of Kansas
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has approved a disaster declaration covering more than half of the Kansas’ 105 counties. The federal assistance approved Thursday will provide service and funds to help recovery from severe weather that began on April…
USDA, DHS formalize transition $1.2 billion NBAF research facility
Two agencies of the federal government signed an agreement outlining the construction-to-operation transition of the $1.2 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility under development in Manhattan, Kansas officials said. Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and…
Kansas jobless rate at 3.5 percent, up 0.2 percent from year ago
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Kansas climbed to 3.5 percent in May, a 0.2 percent rise from one year ago. The jobless rate across the state was steady from April to May at 3.5 percent, but above the 3.3…
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