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The Riley County Jail has been close to reaching capacity in recent month. Jail captain Mark French on Monday told county commissioners the 147-bed correctional facility has an average daily population of about 114 inmates, and sometimes, that number gets up to 120. “We’re pretty maxed out when it comes...

MANHATTAN— Authorities are working to determine the cause of a fire at an apartment complex in Manhattan. Just before 7a.m. Monday crews were dispatched to an apartment building fire at 2514 Stagg Hill Road in Manhattan, according to a media release. Crews found a three-story apartment building with smoke...

JUNCTION CITY (KSNT) – Friday, June 28, a massive storm hit local towns, including Junction City. Shannan Himmaugh has been renting her house for seven years. When a tree came crashing through the house, it destroyed her bed. Luckily, she had just left the room to do laundry.   “Everything was water damaged. It was crushed,” […]

Invasive species are expanding in Kansas' waters.

A portion of Casement Road closed for repairs Monday while southern access to North Martin Luther King Dr. Drive reopened to traffic. The Manhattan street division shut down Casement Road between Allen Road and Dix Drive for concrete panel replacement, and officials expect the closure to remain in place until at least July 26, depending on the weather.

WEEE Entertainment began setup of the carnival for Freedom Fest JC in Junction City on Monday. The carnival will run July 3-7! It will be open weather permitting on Wednesday, July 3 at 6pm,Thursday, July 4 at noon, Friday, July 5 at 5pm, Saturday, July 6 at noon and Sunday, July 7 at 5pm.

The Riley County Health Department will extend its community health education position for another year and hire an additional staff member to coordinate its volunteer program. Functioning as the Board of County Health, the Riley County commission on Monday unanimously approved both personnel requests from health department administrator Julie Gibbs.

Top leaders of the Sunflower State gathered on Monday to unveil a new campaign aiming to bring former Kansas residents back to their home state.

Interim city manager Jason Hilgers and Mayor Susan Adamchak join AJ Shaw for an hour of discussion ahead of this evening’s City Commission meeting. Currently the host of "KMAN's Morning News", Troy is a 30 year veteran of radio, nearly 20 in northern Colorado, where he served as the "Voice of the UNC Bears" while serving as the news and sports director for one of the oldest AM stations in the country. No stranger to Manhattan nor Kansas, Troy is an alum of K-State in broadcast journalism and grew up near Circleville. He began his broadcast career with KSDB-FM on campus while working part time at another radio station in town. He's married to the former Monica Haugsness of Seneca, who has patiently put up with his schedule for more than 25 years.

Following the Friday night storm the Geary County landfill was opened Saturday night for people to bring tree and brush debris. According to County Public Works Director Corey Trumpp 320 truck loads were brought to the Landfill on Saturday and another 254 loads on Sunday or 574 for the weekend.

Due to the weather this past weekend and the lack of internet service, I am not getting this report out until today ( Monday ). When I left the office early on Friday afternoon to travel about 60 miles from here to watch my Granddaughter Dakota play her last softball game of the year I, like many others, had no idea what was ahead. As I sat in the hot sun at the ball game, I soon began getting alerts and texts about the weather here in Junction City. I saw reports of the damage and received pictures of the flooding, trees in the street, limbs and branches in many yards and the collapsed building downtown.

Geary County Emergency Management released a statement on Monday updating the status of the storm in Junction City that saw serious flooding and damage that led to the collapse of a building. In the statement, emergency manager Garry Berges reporting that in consulting with the National Weather Service in Topeka...

The Pottawatomie County Commission gave final approval to the 2025 budget at Monday’s board meeting. Details of the budget had been ironed out during a work session the previous week. For the first time since 2010, the county will see a decrease in assessed valuation. That valuation is determined...

FORT RILEY, Kan. - The Army said that the winner of the III Armored Corps Best Squad Competition, held from June 24-27, is the 4th Infantry Division Squad. This winning team will advance to compete in the FORSCOM Best Squad Competition at Fort Carson, Colorado, in August. This year, Fort...

Every year on the weekend before the 4th of July, the Randolph PRIDE event is always the town’s most attended event as the town celebrates freedom with a number of events that brings the town together and several from across the region. Randolph PRIDE is headlined by its antique...

The National Bio and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) will soon be in operation in Manhattan, Kansas. Its construction, which took more than 10 years, was recently completed. The facility was turned over to the USDA, which will operate NBAF. NBAF enhances the U.S. government's research, development, testing, and evaluation countermeasure capabilities by establishing a modern, integrated foreign animal and zoonotic disease research, development, and testing facility. Overseeing the construction was a Kansas State graduate who returned to Manhattan to continue his work for the Department of Homeland Security. Tim Barr was eventually given the title of program manager to lead the facility through the construction process and into the handoff to the USDA. Barr and his wife, Cathy, also happen to be Tim and Becky Fitzgerald's neighbors. When the two couples gather, talk usually surrounds family, music, and their shared interest in landscaping, but Barr's work was rarely brought up because of its nature. Now that his job is complete — the project returned more than $10 million to the state of Kansas after coming in under budget — Barr received permission to discuss the project in depth. Designed and built in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the new facility provides modern, safe, and secure biocontainment laboratories for licensing animal vaccines, defending against high-consequence diseases in livestock, and providing the essential infrastructure for threat characterization, forensics, and detection. NBAF sits on a forty-eight-acre lot in close proximity to the KSU Biosecurity Research Institute to allow for shared learning and research and costs $1.25 billion to build. Replacing and expanding upon the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, NBAF enhances the DHS's and USDA's capabilities to meet mandated national biological and agricultural defense mission requirements by creating an integrated and comprehensive system to rapidly recognize and characterize biological agents in animal populations, food, water, agriculture, and the environment.

With fireworks sales opening up around the area, Independence Day festivities are just around the corner. Many Americans associate Fourth of July celebrations with fireworks. Fireworks seem festive and harmless, but can be dangerous to you and your family. The only safe way to view fireworks is to attend a...

RILEY, KS - Starting on Monday, July 15th, Kansas Avenue, heading west out of Riley will be closed to through traffic. A structure replacement project will have Kansas Avenue closed from West Street to the intersection with Crooked Creek Road(Hwy 24). The project is estimated to be completed by Wednesday,...