WICHITA — The Kansas State Board of Education has approved new score thresholds for state assessment tests that are expected to increase the number of students scoring in the top levels.
The City of Newton has begun its new comprehensive planning initiative, Newton Next.
Olivia Sumner, a teacher at Creative Minds Academy, started last fall with about 15 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. This fall, the popular microschool operated by the Wichita school district will more than double its enrollment.
Author registration will opened for Newton Public Library’s first-ever Local Author Day.
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and more than a dozen other Democratic governors cautioned President Donald Trump against deploying states’ National Guard.
The Newton High SchoolMarching Band will be more than 80 members strong this year, again directed by Greg Bergman of Newton High School.
This summer city staff have been working on an idea, a set of incentives to try and attract more hotels to the city of Newton.
Newton City offices will be closed Monday, Sept.1 for Labor Day, which will also alter the trash collection schedule.
When the city and county greenlighted a runway reconstruction project for the Newton City/County airport in July, one grant of several had not yet been received even though it had been approved.
Jesse Nathan, a poet whose voice rises from the Kansas prairie and reaches far beyond, has been named the winner of the 2025 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry for his collection, Eggtooth. The $1,000 award will be presented on Friday, September 19, at 4 p.m. in Room 120 of the Plass Learning Resources Center (1731 Plass Ave) on the Washburn University campus just ahead of the annual Kansas Book Festival. Nathan will be present to give a reading from the book.