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3rd earthquake in 4 days reported in northwest Kansas
ROOKS COUNTY — Another earthquake shook portions of northwest Kansas early Monday. The quake just before 2 a.m. measured a magnitude 2.6 and was centered just north of the Ellis County line in Rooks County, according to the U.S.…
Ellis, Trego, Rooks counties organizations awarded $165,000 in grants by HCF
HCF The Heartland Community Foundation (HCF), which serves Ellis, Rooks and Trego Counties, recently awarded over $165,000 in spring grants to area organizations across the three counties. The following organizations received funding through the foundation’s Dane G. Hansen Community Grant…
Price hands USD 308 keys to Folks
Outgoing Hutchinson USD 308 Superintendent Gary Price wore formal dress and his successor, Mike Folks, took a front-row seat in the audience for an 11-minute school board meeting Monday night. “Here we are, the last meeting,” Price told the school…
USDA: More than $2 billion in federal loans available for rural projects
Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has more than $2 billion remain available this year to invest in community facilities and infrastructure projects in rural areas across…
Residents asked to avoid contact with Shunganunga Creek
Because water from the city’s sanitary sewer system may have gotten into Shunganunga Creek, Topeka’s city government is asking residents to avoid contact with that creek from S.W. Washburn Avenue west to the point where it enters the Kansas River.…
A broken van, a struggling family. A community — and a commissioner — step up to help
Jonathan Hunter spends all his time in a wheelchair and is dependent on his family. But spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy doesn’t keep the 22-year-old from doing what he loves — listening to music, eating ice cream and going to the…
Winds up to 111 mph damaged Derby. NWS surveying whether storm spawned a tornado
After strong winds reported to be up to 111 mph caused damage in Derby early Sunday morning, the National Weather Service surveyed whether the storm spawned a tornado. The Wichita office of the weather service said officials would be in…
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City leaders agree that the coin-fed meters and other outdated devices used to enforce parking rules downtown need to be modernized, but how much parking rates and tickets should increase next year to fund that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…
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