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<div style="color: #333;">Part of ancient city rebuilt near Arkansas City</div>
A new immersion center in Arkansas City is highlighting a settlement that has been called one of the most influential cities in ancient North America. Some estimates say the city of Etzanoa housed up to 20,000 ancestors of the Wichita…
<div style="color: #333;">Wichita considers toilet-to-tap system for drinking water</div>
The largest city in Kansas is looking to join two cities across the globe — Big Spring, Texas and Windhoek, Namibia — in converting what is flushed down the toilet into what comes out of the water tap — treating…
<div style="color: #333;">Lawrence advisory board wants community engagement on proposed city sustainability policies</div>
One public commenter spoke at Lawrence’s environmental advisory board meeting Thursday night. Board members hope to draw a crowd next month as they decide which sustainability recommendations to put before the city commission. The swath of initiatives proposed by the…
<div style="color: #333;">North Newton City Council driven to study streets</div>
Some of the old blacktop on streets in North Newton are experiencing deterioration. North Newton Administrator Brad Harris said the trash truck is really damaging those streets on the south side of town. In a related matter, the North Newton…
<div style="color: #333;">Commerce Awards to Help Renovate Buildings into Business Incubators</div>
Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland today announced the Kansas Department of Commerce has awarded $750,000 in Downtown Revive & Thrive grants to support nine building renovation projects across Kansas. When matched with more than $286,000 in local…
<div style="color: #333;">Council considers ban on motorized scooters</div>
In a three-hour-long work session, Halstead City Council members discussed many of the recently discussed topics, like code enforcement, e-bikes and e-scooters, cemetery improvements, and the 2027 budget. The council spent the most time talking about electric bikes and scooters,…
<div style="color: #333;">‘Lives are at stake’ — Prairie Village cracks down on kids riding e-bikes and e-motos amid explosion of calls</div>
As children’s use of e-scooters, e-bikes and now, e-motorcycles, becomes increasingly concerning among city officials across Johnson County, Prairie Village Police plan to step up enforcement of its current restrictions — and explore tweaking those rules to match neighboring cities’…
<div style="color: #333;">De Soto could get a second data center — this one nearly 4 times bigger than the first</div>
Just weeks after De Soto’s incoming 300-acre data center site broke ground, a separate data center developer is looking to build a campus nearly quadruple that size just down the road at Astra Enterprise Park. This marks the fourth data…
<div style="color: #333;">Kansas tries to transform and save its rural hospitals</div>
Rural hospitals in Kansas will use federal money to help them transform and expand access to healthcare. Some are creating new services like mobile maternal health clinics, but looming Medicaid cuts still mean many hospitals are at risk of closing.…
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