The battle for Ukraine’s strategic port of Mariupol raged on Monday, as Ukraine rejected a Russian offer to evacuate its troops from the besieged city and Russian bombardment continued. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said about 400 civilians were taking shelter at an art school in the Azov Sea port city when it was struck by a Russian bomb.
For the first time the Newton Lions Club served up a St. Patrick’s Day meal, a community fundraiser to benefit Lions and Newton Meals on Wheels.
HESSTON – Hesston College’s summer musical theatre camp will feature a new format in summer 2022. Aspiring actors and tech crew members ages 11 to 18 will stay in the dorms June 13 to 18 while participating in production schedule culminating in a Saturday matinee performance of the musical “The Addams Family.” Hesston College Director of Theatre Rachel Jantzi will direct and design the show, oversee staff and all camp programming.
A Kansas Senate bill could bolster the state’s efforts to inspect dog and cat breeders, shelters and kennels after an audit found the program lacking. The bill — supported by animal shelters and the Humane Society of the United States, and opposed by the Kansas Livestock Association and dog breeders — would establish a division of the Kansas Department of Agriculture to deal with pet animal facility inspections.
To understand why oil prices are high today, you have to go back two years, to the early days of the pandemic. Oil prices hit the floor in April 2020.
The last couple of years have been a bit of a whirlwind for Connie Rickard, the new but old director of Trinity Heights Respite Care. In 2019 she left the position, choosing to move with her husband to Indiana where the couple could be closer to their children and grandchildren.
The Butler County Times-Gazette has reached out to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and can confirm an investigation is ongoing at the El Dorado State Park. Earlier this month the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism Human Resource Director Debbie Rosacker confirmed to KWCH that there was an investigation, but declined to name what agency or agencies are conducting it.
On Thursday, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly approved updated drought declarations for Kansas counties with Executive Order #22-03. This drought declaration places all 105 Kansas counties either in watch, warning or emergency status.
Another in a series of bills criticized as an effort to end development of wind farms in Kansas failed to make it out of committee Thursday. The bill was introduced by Sen.
The spring tree planting season is upon us, with the city of Newton offering to assist property owners in planting trees. The city will give spring tree coupons good for 50 percent off the cost of a tree, up to $75.