By now your houseplants are settled in for what looks like it could be a short winter and you are careful not to overwater or water too frequently. Suddenly you see some wilting or yellowing of leaves and small insects hanging around your healthy plants. What are these creatures? They count be fungus gnats.
Dear Doctors: We live in Northern California, and every time we have high winds, the electric company shuts off power because of the fire danger. We use candles and lanterns to light the house, and my husband thinks that he sleeps better on those nights. Do you think there’s a connection?
A Wichita school board meeting was suspended unexpectedly Monday after three new board members refused to wear face masks during the meeting. Diane Albert, Kathy Bond and Hazel Stabler, who were elected in November and started their terms Monday, sat at the board table without masks when a livestream of the meeting started.
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly challenged Republicans who control the state Legislature to freeze tuition at the state’s public colleges and to give her a bill that ends the sales tax on groceries by month’s end.
TOPEKA — Supercharged revenue collections in December by the state Department of Revenue exceeded the monthly estimate by $64 million to expand the cash cushion available for tax reductions or spending investments by the 2022 Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly.
WICHITA, — Health care officials across Kansas and Missouri issued a dire warning Wednesday that COVID-19 has reached new and alarming crisis levels throughout the region. Hospitals struggling to care for sick coronavirus patients — the vast majority of them unvaccinated — find themselves short on staff after record numbers of health care workers are testing positive for the virus.
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19’s alarming omicron wave might have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases could drop dramatically. The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected in South Africa.
SOFIA, Bulgaria – Protesters opposing COVID-19 restrictions in Bulgaria clashed Wednesday with police as they tried to storm the Parliament in the capital of Sofia. A heavy police presence prevented protesters from entering the building, and some were detained.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Bethel College men’s basketball team played in the city where it wants to end the season and now needs to keep up the momentum to get downtown.
Prep girls Central Kansas League Nickerson 55, Hesston 40 HESSTON — Ava Jones scored 30 points to lead the Nickerson Panther girls to a 55-40 win over Hesston Tuesday in CKL play. Nickerson led 30-23 at the half and 41-30 after three quarters.