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<div style="color: #333;">Johnson County Stormwater Management Program launches grant program for “green” infrastructure projects</div>
Johnson County’s Stormwater Management Program has launched its new Green infrastructure Grant Program, covering the cost of green infrastructure projects across the county. “Green infrastructure” refers to natural systems like streams, prairies, forests and wetlands. The program seeks to fund projects…
<div style="color: #333;">Olathe pumps the brakes on a drone ordinance after pushback from operators</div>
After pushback from the public, the Olathe City Council on Tuesday delayed a vote on an ordinance restricting drone takeoffs and landings to give the topic more scrutiny and discussion. The ordinance would place new limits on where drones can…
<div style="color: #333;">A giant spinning sunflower in front of De Soto City Hall was built entirely by high schoolers</div>
April showers bring May flowers — or, in this case, a 15-foot sunflower sculpture outside De Soto City Hall. City officials, the De Soto Arts Council and USD 232 students and staff celebrated the installation of the kinetic sculpture, titled…
<div style="color: #333;">Residents fight back against massive data center proposal in Gardner</div>
A proposed 300-acre data center in Gardner has nearby residents in an uproar. California-based Beale Infrastructure, which also leads the De Soto data center project, recently proposed another data center in eastern Gardner, near the northeast corner of 191st Street…
<div style="color: #333;">A Kansas wildfire scorched 1,500 acres after city’s burn. The official cause is undetermined.</div>
Charred fence posts, oxidized barbed wire and blackened trees lined the Arkansas River in west-central Kansas in the wake of a 1,500 acre fire that scorched the dry riverbed and surrounding property. Below average rainfall in the region and a…
<div style="color: #333;">Mission Gateway sits empty 20 years later. What is the Mission mayor’s plan for it?</div>
The Mission Gateway site at the intersection of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Johnson Drive has sat largely vacant for two decades. While it's unclear how long it might take for the private property get redeveloped, Mission Mayor Sollie Flora says…
<div style="color: #333;">Kansas’ solution to the rural lawyer shortage</div>
It’s getting more difficult to find an attorney in rural Kansas as people retire, so the state is offering incentives to attract a new generation of lawyers. Still, filling the civic leadership roles left by veteran lawyers will not be…
<div style="color: #333;">It’s hard to get legal help in rural Kansas. Now the state will pay new attorneys to practice there</div>
Steve Hirsch serves as county attorney in four counties and as city attorney in 20 communities in western Kansas … and he has even more jobs. The 64-year-old also files income tax returns, helps handle affairs after someone dies and…
<div style="color: #333;">Lifeguard shortages plague multiple Kansas towns</div>
As public pools prepare to open for the summer, a familiar problem is forcing them to make changes. Augusta announced Thursday that due to a shortage of lifeguards, the pool will have reduced hours. The city said it is short…
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