TOPEKA — Administrators of public universities in the Kansas Board of Regents system proposed student tuition increases for undergraduate resident students in the upcoming academic year ranging from 2.5% at Pittsburg State University to 4% at Fort Hays State University. The outlier was Emporia State University, which responded to steady enrollment declines by requesting no increase in tuition for the second consecutive year.
Lindsborg police joined other law enforcement agencies May 13 in the chase of a driver suspected of homicide and bank robbery in Topeka the day before, and who died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after his vehicle went in the ditch east of the old Stucky's on Kansas Highway 4. Anthony Marshall Jr., 47, was wanted in the May 12 gunshot killing of Kathleen Hayes, 40, and a robbery committed shortly later at Equity Bank, Topeka police told the Topeka Capital-Journal.
For the seventh year in a row, the Viking girls won the Central Kansas League track and field meet, which was held May 15 in… Login to continue reading Login…
The Smoky Valley Board of Education on Monday night approved $72,000 for resurfacing tennis courts. This is a process that recurs about every five years, for normal wear and tear.
In 2023, the Lindsorg City Council voted to pitch in for a $24,000 countywide study of housing, which McPherson County and its municipalities could use for planning how to build. This was through the McPherson Housing Coalition and a company hired to conduct the study, RDG Planning & Design.
The tennis team placed third at the Kansas State High School Activities Association regional meet Friday and Saturday at Wichita Collegiate High School. The Vikings’ four doubles players will go to state.
The U.S. Department of Energy had a vision: Slash in half the amount of a potent greenhouse gas that enters the atmosphere when growing corn and sorghum for biofuel.
A confession: I’m trying to quit my podcast habit.
In February, I testified against House Bill 2299, a bill to put the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism into statute, focused on university campuses and punishable by prosecution by the state’s attorney general, Kris Kobach. A watered-down version (Senate Bill 44), which took out most of the enforcement provisions, passed at the end of the session.