’Tis the season to travel, and AAA estimates 112.7 million people nationwide will journey 50 miles or more away from home from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2. That’s an increase of 3.6 million people over last year and closing in on pre-pandemic numbers. 2022 is expected to be the third busiest year for holiday travel since AAA began tracking in 2000.
A 25-year veteran was chosen Thursday to lead the Kansas City police department, which is embroiled in internal and external controversies. The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners chose Stacey Graves, the current acting deputy chief, making her the first woman to become the permanent police chief in the department’s nearly 150-year history.
Christians find themselves in the fourth week of Advent. Advent is the church season of refl ective preparation for the nativity of Christ at Christmas and the expected return of Christ in the second coming.
Starbucks workers around the U.S. are planning a three-day strike starting Friday as part of their effort to unionize the coffee chain’s stores.
Keeping up a holiday tradition, Basehor’s Holy-Field Winery recently held an old-fashioned cookie sale to benefit the KU Cancer Center in honor of the very first tasting room hostess, Shirley Meyer, the mother of current Holy-Field co-owner Michelle Meyer and wife of co-owner Les Meyer.
The 30th annual Vintage Homes Tour by the Leavenworth County Historical Society had a special meaning for me. In the past, I have volunteered to hold doors for other’s houses.
Kenneth George Ring, a U.S. Army veteran, was born in Wabasha, Minnesota, on Oct.
The Biden administration is once more making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it releases its contingency plans with coronavirus cases ticking upward this winter.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Thursday that if the United States confirms reports that it plans to deliver sophisticated air defense missiles to Ukraine, it would be “another provocative move by the U.S.” that could prompt a response from Moscow.
Kansas residents can get free assistance finding and enrolling in marketplace health insurance plans from NEK-CAP’s navigator. Open enrollment lasts until Jan.