HONOLULU – Bright lights at a luxury Hawaii resort are killing endangered seabirds, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by conservation groups that say hotel officials need to do more to protect the species.
A year after Winter Storm Uri slammed Kansas, regulators approved a plan for the state’s largest natural gas provider, Kansas Gas Service, to recoup $366 million in extraordinary costs. The plan, approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission on Tuesday, will likely mean customers will pay between $5 and $7 per month extra on their gas bills for the next 5-10 years, with the exact timeframe and dollar amount still uncertain.
OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations after the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada became partially blocked by truckers protesting vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions.
LAWRENCE – Haskell Indian Nations University has settled a lawsuit filed after a former university president sought to dictate what student journalists could report and write. Free-speech advocates said the settlement agreement with former Haskell student journalist Jared Nally includes policy reforms that will protect students’ constitutional rights on the Haskell campus, The Lawrence Journal-World reported.
John Dale Wightman, was born on October 28, 1943 at home in St. Claire County, Missouri to John Merland and Bessie (Tucker) Wightman.
Gwendolyn Webb Buchanan, 85, formerly of Leavenworth, Kansas passed away on December 25, 2021, in Olympia, Washington. She was with her loving family when she went home to be with the Lord. She was born in Topeka, Kansas to Richard and Fern Webb on March 2 1936. She was raised in Topeka and attended Buchanan Grade School, Topeka High School, and Washburn University.
Give me liberty and give me death. That’s an apt update of Patrick Henry’s famous 1775 quote, considering behavior among some conservative lawmakers whose view of “liberty” places us all at risk.
The year 2021 was very active in bringing change to Leavenworth County government. These changes that will benefit the residents included adoption of a $50 million budget that included a reduction in the mill levy, implementation of spending priorities for the $19 million of CARES Act funding for COVID-19 relief, establishing goals for expenditure of the additional $16 million scheduled to be received from the federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act, and most recently refinancing county bonding of sales tax funds which cut the amount of interest the county will pay by $813,000 over the life of the bonds.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
As some of the last statewide school mask mandates near an end, responsibility is shifting back to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of one of the most divisive issues of the pandemic. “Unfortunately, this is an issue where you are not going to make everybody happy,” said Jeffrey Solan, school superintendent in Cheshire, Connecticut.