The amount of time the Harvey County Commission dedicates to COVID-19 mitigation at each meeting is dropping, almost faster that case numbers. This week the commission learned that there are eight active cases of the disease in the county, a significant drop from the height of the pandemic when that number would be in the hundreds.
Three times on Friday night tornado warning sirens sounded in Newton. At about the same time, a twister ravaged Andover.
TOPEKA — A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion shows the justices are preparing to overturn federal abortion rights protections, and that raises the stakes for a constitutional amendment vote on abortion rights in Kansas this August.
HESSTON – Hesston College students and faculty were recognized for their achievements in academics and leadership during LarkFest Awards ceremony, held in the Hesston Mennonite Church sanctuary on April 29.
Teresa Tosh, who resigned her position as superintendent of El Dorado USD 490 a few weeks ago, was announced May 2 as principal of Sunset Elementary of Newton USD 373 for the 2022-2023 school year. “There was a family health scare in March, and it made us evaluate what we wanted to do.
Consider that most prescription drug dosages are measured in milligrams - and the 160 pounds of presciprtion drugs collected during the April 30 becomes more impressive. That translates into 72,574,779 miligrams of prescription drugs.
MANHATTAN – Kansas State University researchers are reporting findings indicating that adding a legume -- such as field peas – to a grass-heavy crop rotation seems to be a good option for fixing nitrogen levels in the field. Cropping systems agronomist Kraig Roozeboom and graduate researcher Sarah Zerger have been conducting trials in Colby, Hays, Scandia and Manhattan. “We have data to show that the wheat after peas was actually looking better than after the soybeans at the eastern locations,” Roozeboom said. Zerger added that “we had more residual soil nitrogen at wheat planting” after a crop of field peas. “By finding that there’s more nitrogen in the soil, we can apply less fertilizer to both our wheat and potentially our corn,” she said.
TOPEKA — Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office says the Kansas Supreme Court has no business evaluating the fairness of redrawn congressional districts, despite a district court’s ruling that the map is heavily biased toward Republicans and dilutes minority votes.
The Cottonwood Complex Fire, a wild fire that started in Reno County on March 5 bleeding into Harvey County and forcing evacuations, left behind serious damage, including one death. Burning a tota of 12,000 acres, about 820 acres of Harvey County were affected.
Dear Doctors: Can you please talk about rat bite fever? Our son got bitten by a baby rat while he was cleaning out his garage, and he didn’t see a doctor. It turned out that he was OK, but I’m worried about what could have happened. What should he have done?