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K-State Agriculture Today: 1747 – Wheat Performance Tests…Cicada Killers
00:01:05 – Wheat Performance Tests, Part 1: K-State crop performance test coordinator, Jane Lingenfelser, starts today’s show with two segments to review the 2024 wheat performance tests in Kansas. In the first segment she discusses how the growing season faired for weather, disease and insects. 00:12:05 – Wheat...
Reinvestment Corridor coming to Missouri, Kansas
The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) is bringing a 24-mile bi-state reinvestment corridor to Kansas and Missouri. Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, II paired with local officials Tuesday to announce the initiative that will connect Independence, Sugar Creek, Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. The Bi-State Sustainable Reinvestment Corridor project will involve...
Headlines for Thursday, August 15, 2024
Thousands Lose Power in Kansas, Missouri as Storms Rolled Through Wednesday Night. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KPR) — Thousands of people lost power late Wednesday night and into early Thursday morning as severe thunderstorms rolled through the area. Utility company Evergy says outages from the severe storms overnight peaked at about 37,000 customers without power throughout its service area - with Topeka, Wichita, Newton and Leavenworth heavily affected. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, Evergy had restored power for 65% of the affected customers. As of 4 p.m., about 4,500 customers were without power with about 360 outage events. A statement at the Evergy outage map website reported that the Wichita, Topeka, Newton and Leavenworth areas saw the greatest number of power outages. Evergy crews from surrounding communities have arrived to these areas to assist with power restoration. Damage reports have included broken poles, downed wires and trees in powerlines. In Topeka, where winds caused extensive damage to the power grid, restoration for some customers is expected to take until Friday evening. In the town of Sedgwick, nearly two dozen poles are being replaced, and work to restore some customers will take until Friday. Customers in other areas are expected to be restored by Thursday night. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for northeast Kansas and western Missouri late Wednesday night and into early Thursday morning.
Kansas counted 2,800 homeless residents this year. The real number is likely triple that
Every year on a single night in January, hundreds of volunteers fan out in several communities across the state of Kansas to count every homeless person they encounter – on streets, in shelters, along rivers and within motel rooms. This year, organizers counted 2,815 homeless Kansans across the state,...
Wednesday's Child - Teen Adoptions
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The goal of our weekly segment, called Wednesday’s Child, is to find families for kids who need to be adopted. Many of those children are older and harder to place. But a special program, through our partner Adopt Kansas Kids, is trying to make the process easier.
Kansas joins multistate challenge against ‘Bidenbucks’ voter registration scheme
Kansas and a coalition of several Republican-led states joined a lawsuit to block the Biden administration from using taxpayer-funded federal agencies to register new voters and decried it an “unlawful” overreach that could result in millions of new Democratic registrants. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, claims the […]
Plains residents injured in wreck
Two Plains residents were taken to Southwest Medical Center Wednesday afternoon after a pickup struck a semi in eastern Seward County. The Kansas Highway Patrol said a 2012 Freightliner Cascadia was northbound on Seward County Road O shortly before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, and a 2003 Chevy Silverado was westbound on U.S. Highway 54.
Amarillo College volleyball sweeps Seward County in pre-season scrimmage
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Earlier today, the Amarillo College Badger volleyball team welcomed in the Seward County Saints for a scrimmage match. This marks the first event of the year in the newly built FirstBank Southwest Center, and head coach Scott Sandel and AC volleyball were ready to go. Four...
City continues updating floodplain maps
The City of Liberal has been working diligently to update its floodplain maps and Tuesday, the Liberal City Commission got to hear an update on that work. Benesch Project Manager Joe File began his presentation with some history behind the project. “Back in the 1970s, your floodplains were mapped using...
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