A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be the largest in the U.S. since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness in the 1950s, health officials said.
President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that process is taken seriously.
After years of attempts by Republican lawmakers, Kansas appears poised to join more than 20 other states in banning teens who have gender dysphoria from accessing gender-affirming health care.
Within the last week two members of the Newton USD 373 Board of Education participated in a community meeting which was part of an effort to create a plan for future building use.
My local public library has perhaps the best marketing of a tax-provided service ever. Patrons who check out items there receive a receipt that details the savings achieved by using the library. In 2024, my wife and I “saved” close to $5,000, according to this accounting.
BESS stands for “Battery Energy Storage System.” The largest BESS in the US is located at Moss Landing in California. It is 3000 Megawatt-hours in size, and was built in sections.
TOPEKA — The Kansas secretary of state and Republican legislators endorsed Tuesday a bill nullifying the state attorney general’s decision to invalidate on a technicality passage of a $4.6 million bond issue for Greeley County public schools.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Non-irrigated cropland prices in Kansas rose 3.8% last year, while pasture and hay ground increased by approximately 2.7%, according to information in the 2024 Kansas Agricultural Land Values and Trends publication released earlier this year.
Over twenty-five years ago, our failure to adopt the metric system resulted in the loss of our Mars Climate Orbiter probe launched at Cape Canaveral on December 11, 1998. On September 23, 1999, communication with the orbiter was lost as it came too close to the surface of Mars. An investigation discovered the failure to be caused by a mismatch between the metric units used by NASA and the spacecraft’s builder Lockheed Martin that used the non-metric system.
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