Crews with Union Pacific on Sunday morning are working the scene of a train derailment near Perry, a dispatcher with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed. The derailment happened Saturday night, but many details about it were not immediately available. A 911 dispatcher on ...
More than six years after work began on Wichita’s new water treatment plant, work has “ceased” — and it’s not because the plant is finished. Wichita city officials announced Wednesday that “ongoing issues” with the plant’s clarifiers has caused work to stop at the ...
BARTON COUNTY — The problem sounds easy: Kansas has too few houses for sale, especially in small, rural communities struggling to attract young people and new businesses. The simple answer is to build more houses. But those in real estate say this shortage has been years in the making, ...
For most of her career as a physician, Shelly Kortkamp didn’t envision ever shifting into the C-suite. But as she was working as a hospitalist at the Hospital Sisters Health System in Illinois, Kortkamp, said the CEO approached her to see if she would serve as the Chief Medical Officer on an ...
Just Food’s mobile pantry, which serves rural residents and others who can’t easily reach the main location, has been operating for six years and is now working to expand its reach in Eudora. The program is called Cruising Cupboard, and Lawrence-based Just Food uses it to distribute food ...
A major snowstorm in the Midwest and Great Lakes is bringing winter to some Thanksgiving travelers with forecasters saying the northeast U.S. could get its own early winter storm next week. Winter storm warnings and advisories extended from Montana to Ohio, the National Weather Service said. ...
