An investigation is continuing into why a Lawrence man was found dead Tuesday in an Ottawa home, and if his death was the result of a fentanyl overdose. In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Ottawa police said officers were dispatched to a local residence after a 22-year-old man was found dead.
TOPEKA – Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed an order on Wednesday, banning the use of the social media platform TikTok on all state-owned devices for Kansas executive branch agencies, boards and commissions and their respective employees, and prohibits access on the state network.
– Colder temperatures and winter weather has arrived in Kansas. The dropping temperatures and necessity of raising the thermostat are leaving some families vulnerable when it comes to covering their heating bills.
The oil spill is the biggest in the Keystone pipeline’s history and it dumped a sludgy form of crude oil that poses special challenges for a cleanup. Chemicals from the Keystone pipeline spill in north-central Kansas have shown up farther downstream in Mill Creek than the oil company’s repeated statements suggest.
An Iowa man was killed in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 35, just north of the U.S. Highway 59 junction, during the Christmas holiday weekend.
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly and the joint House and Senate tax committee agree the 2023 Kansas Legislature ought to work on bills addressing the state income tax cliff applicable to retirees with more than $75,000 in annual earnings.
TOPEKA — The compounding influence of adverse dry, hot and windy climate patterns slashed wheat yield 4% in Kansas and five other Great Plains states over the past 40 years, Kansas State University researchers reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Xiaomao Lin, professor of agricultural climatology, said the study was the first to quantify a connection between change in the nation’s climate and wheat production.
The City of Ottawa is providing a Christmas tree dropoff location at the city’s brush pile on West 2nd Street. The pile is located past Hope Cemetery, near the 2nd Street dam.
In November 2020, Brandon Scrimsher was sentenced to three months in the Douglas County jail. The prospect of more time in jail was disheartening.