November 2013

Since the Dodge City Family YMCA opened its doors in January, it has almost completed $250,000 in renovations and equipment purchases, beat enrollment expectations and is gearing up to continue impro…

When it comes to parent involvement, Dodge City public schools have seen their share of improvement, but there’s always room for more, administrators say.

Opportunities for parent involvement exist …

A former assistant branch manager has been charged with embezzling $346,000 from the Wichita bank where she worked.
The U.S. attorney's office says 43-year-old Lisa Marie Evans, of Wichita, was indic…

A Texas couple has donated $1 million for Kansas State University's new College of Business Administration building.
The university says Rand Berney and his wife, Patti, of Southlake, Texas, donated …

Westar Energy plans to purchase 200 megawatts of electricity from a northern Oklahoma wind farm expected to begin operating in late 2016.
The Topeka-based utility announced Wednesday that it had reac…

A new litter of African painted dogs at the Sedgwick County Zoo is doing well, thanks to a friendly pit bull.
Eight of 11 of the painted dogs born on Oct. 31 survived but their mother couldn't produc…

The Ford County Extension Council will hold elections at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Ford County Fair Building at 901 West Park St. Ford County residents 18 and older can vote and are eligi…

A Kansas group is planning to use a billboard campaign to push for legalizing marijuana in the state.
Fire It Up Kansas says the ad on a digital billboard near the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane is th…

A special legislative committee is opening two days of hearings to review the Kansas school finance system and study practices in neighboring states.
The meetings Wednesday and Thursday are also expe…

The Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita might someday be named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Wichita city council members agreed on Tuesday to create an advisory committee to study renaming the ci…