Junction City officials recently offered to pay $1 to assume the current JCHS site once the school is demolished and mitigation work has been completed.
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall appeared on FOX Business Wednesday to discuss ongoing mask mandates and an increase in vaccine hesitancy saying in part, “We need to be focused on getting vaccines into people’s arms right now so that we do achieve that herd immunity here in the United States,” according to a release from his office.
Authorities are searching for an aggravated robbery suspect who is accused of threatening an officer with piece of lumber after escaping from a Kansas jail.
Car was found upside down in Mission Creek just south of eastbound Interstate 70, about a half-mile east of S.W. Valencia Road in western Shawnee County.
A Black Kansas City firefighter was subjected to racial discrimination then fired in retaliation for his complaints, a federal jury found Thursday in a trial that highlighted systemic racism in the department.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Wednesday to crack down on protesters by increasing penalties for blocking roadways and granting immunity to motorists who kill or injure rioters.
A fire that authorities said was intentionally set destroyed a house early Thursday at 1119 S.W. Clay in the Tennessee Town neighborhood of central Topeka. A neighboring house at 1115 S.W. Clay was damaged.
Gas prices are on the rise again in Topeka, with unleaded fuel going for $2.79 a gallon at the Phillips 66 station at S.W. 10th and Wanamaker. The average price for a gallon of unleaded fuel in Kansas is up five cents over a week ago, according to AAA.
A group of state treasurers gathered for a conversation via Zoom Wednesday morning to promote President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan which he’s set to announce soon.
The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said a judge sentenced a 32-year-old Wichita woman to 24 months’ probation for breaking into a Wichita home and killing man’s dog during the burglary.
