Kansas Gas gets approval of fees to cover 2021 price spikes
Massive price spikes of natural gas during a cold winter storm – named Uri – are about to be paid for by Kansas Gas customers. Surcharges to gas bills could be around for a decade.
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Kansas Profile: Sharing a wealth of knowledge on the plains
When your business or organization needs to conduct a staff retreat, where do you go? Sometimes groups leave their town to go to a bigger city with lots of venue choices. Today we’ll meet an Extension district whose staff chose to go in the opposite direction.
Family and friends who take on foster kids in Kansas say they need more support from the state
TOPEKA, Kansas — Twila Lasiter worked in a special needs foster home for more than two decades. That taught her how hard the foster care system can be on children.
Walking the cat on a cold Kansas day
Dear Readers, Remnants of snow remain ‘round the farmhouse’s foundation, a not-quite-decorative edging of uneven pale scallops where the eaves block the sun’s reach. Across our northern pasture drifts persist, frozen wind sculpted lines resembling ocean waves.
KANSAS PRINCIPAL TOLD TO APOLOGIZE OVER WHITE PRIVILEGE FILM
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas high school principal who showed a four-minute video about white privilege to his staff was told to apologize after a teacher complained that the video was offensive.
GOP-led Senate reverses course to override governor’s veto of congressional map
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate completed Tuesday a rebuke of Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a congressional redistricting map shifting moderate-voting Lawrence to the rural 1st District and realigning the 3rd District to weaken re-election prospects of the state’s lone Democratic U.S. representative.
COUNTY SEES UPSWING IN COVID CASES – 268 NEW, DROP IN CLUSTERS
MCPHERSON – When you look at the latest Covid reports by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) along with the McPherson County Health Department (MCHD), McPherson County can celebrate a drop in cluster numbers while wondering about another upswing in new positive tests.
Senate president strips three GOP colleagues of committee assignments
TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson let the dust settle Thursday on the congressional redistricting map debate before sanctioning three Republican colleagues for initially refusing to support the veto override of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
McPherson High School JAG-K students visit Statehouse
TOPEKA, Kansas – On Thursday, four students from McPherson High School visited the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka as part of the Jobs for America’s Graduates-Kansas ( JAG-K) program. Below is a synopsis of the trip’s significance from Katelyn Loecker:
WICHITA STATE, KANSAS SPLIT $11 MILLION SCHOLARSHIP GIFT
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University and the University of Kansas will split an $11 million gift to provide full-ride scholarships to undergraduates, according to a news release issued Wednesday.