TOPEKA — A Spirit AeroSystems executive pleaded with the Kansas Senate to dramatically reform membership and operations of the Kansas Corporation Commission based on an assertion the three-member regulatory body was beholden to interests of utility companies to the detriment of consumers.
As debate has waged in Harvey County over a possible wind energy project in the southwestern portion of the county, construction on a sizeable wind energy project in Marion County started last spring The towers under construction at 100th and Nighthawk Ave. just north of Peabody, are visible on U.S. 50 from about 10 miles away. They are generally 500 foot in height.
The black-and-white video opens with a young Black man, surrounded by followers, an “influencer” moving in a scene that looks like it’s taken from the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. Then the man is shown hugging a white police officer and a voice says that “one day he stood up for something he believed in.” But the establishment tried to shut him up.
Newton High School named the Winter Homecoming King and Queen on Feb. 10 during the homecoming basketball games.
Church to host Verenike Supper First Mennonite Church of Halstead will host a Verenike Supper Feb. 25 at the church, 427 W.
The summers of 1959 and 1960 were particularly difficult for the late Lou Richardson, who perserved to become a a graduate of Newton High School. He was a Boy Scout, part of troops 105 and 150 that met at First Christian Church and Four Square Church.
The third film in the 2022-23 KIPCOR Film Series is tailor-made for Black History Month while relating a story for all seasons. KIPCOR film screenings always include talkbacks – and this one is highly unusual in having the film’s subject be the talkback guest.
TOPEKA — Spurred on by frustrations over losing high-profile races to Democrats, Kansas Republicans on Saturday picked an aggressive conservative to lead the party into the 2024 election cycle. Party officials elected Mike Brown, a former Johnson County commissioner, to party chair during the Republican state convention.
TOPEKA — The Kansas adult assisted-living industry pushed back against legislation creating in state law requirements for informing residents in advance of involuntary discharge or transfer orders and establishing in statute the right of residents to appeal those decisions.
Newton USD 373 is struggling with a drop in enrollment - hundreds of students over the course of the past several years. Enrollment shrinkage in five of the past seven years.