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.
After two hours of uncertainty, the Kansas House successfully overturned Wednesday Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto on a set of Republican-authored Congressional maps, shifting the fight of the districts’ legality to the courts.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON – Some Democratic senators on Wednesday called for suspending the federal gas tax for the remainder of the year to help consumers struggling with rising fuel prices. The legislation from Sens.
When they met this week, Leavenworth city commissioners took an initial step toward issuing bonds for street and park projects. City Manager Paul Kramer said there will be multiple steps in the process.
Grass fires can occur at any time. But this is the “prime time” for grass fires in Leavenworth County, the local emergency management director said.
TOPEKA, Kan. – Fellow Republican conservatives rallied Tuesday behind a Kansas physician-legislator who’s under investigation by the state medical board, advancing his measures to protect doctors pursuing potentially dangerous treatments for COVID-19 and to weaken childhood vaccination requirements.