COLBY, Kansas — The board that advises the Kansas governor and Legislature on water policy now says the state needs to dramatically cut farming irrigation to stop draining the Ogallala aquifer. The vote by the Kansas Water Authority on Wednesday signals a call for a major shift in state policy.
The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from states to let them import medicine from Canada to help lower prescription drug costs. Colorado on Dec.
This week middle school students put their musical talents on display with Christmas performances in downtown Newton. At about 3:25 p.m.
September 18, 2004. Bret Fitzpatrick was driving to a farm sale when his truck tire blew out on a two-lane bridge.
Each day that passes, the hundreds of thousands of gallons of sludgy oil coating Mill Creek in north-central Kansas become harder to clean up. That’s because the pipeline that busted just outside the town of Washington on Dec.
Call for Christmas lights Do you know of some great Christmas lights to go see in Newton? Email the address to news@thekansan.com for listing in the Kansan next week. ‘ Here are three places to make sure to see this weekend: • The Meister Family Christmas light show, 3 Hickory Ct., is back for 2022, with some new music in the lineup for the annual show.
In 2010 the city of Newton and Harvey County entered into an interlocal agreement to create the Kansas Logistics Park. That agreement, among other things, set up how the profits from land sales would be split between the two entities.
Newton resident Joe Solomon spent a few days thinking about how Master-Brand ceasing production at its Newton manufacturing plant might affect him. After all, he was not one of the 450 people out of a job right before Christmas.
The Health Ministries Clinic set up a flu shot clinic in the Bessimer Room of Newton Public Library Dec.15 and asked people to start rolling up their sleeves. It was an effort by Newton Public Library host a Community Flu Vaccine Clinic.
Schools in Kansas have been closing due to illness so many students and staff are sick that school is being called off. It happened at a Wichita elementary school, Ashland and Osage City in the last week.