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, ...
TOPEKA — A national organization supporting social workers restructured, stripping Kansas of its local executive director and leaving a long-time system advocate without a job. Becky Fast, who has led the Kansas chapter of the National Association of Social Workers since 2017, was let go ...
CEDAR CREST — The best gift Statehouse Republicans could give Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly this holiday season is collaboration to resolve Kansas’ water issues, she said Tuesday at the annual Christmas tree donation at Cedar Crest. “Recognizing that that is not a political win or loss for ...
For several days, the official site of the Kansas Attorney General’s Office hosted links to artificial intelligence deepfake software, financial scams and adult sites. On Monday morning, the Kansas News Service accessed PDFs containing instructions for accessing the illicit websites. ...
TOPEKA — The U.S. Senate passed a bill introduced by Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran to establish a 10-year program to identify Jewish-American servicemembers interred in cemeteries overseas with markers that didn’t properly indicate the individual’s religious heritage. The measure ...