Tonganoxie will be selling some of the playground equipment at Chieftain Park and the Stone Creek subdivision playground on Purple Wave, while other items from the playgrounds will be thrown away. Tonganoxie City Council members approved of the measure at Monday’s regular meeting as the ...
A push to extend a moratiurm on data centers in unincorporated areas of Leavenworth County failed Wednesday, Aug. 5, paving the way for a massive data center to be built south of Tonganoxie. The 90-day moratorium was set to end last week and Commissioners Mike Stieben proposed an extension of ...
Agenda Leavenworth County Commission agenda for 9 a.m. July 29 at the Leavenworth County Courthouse I. CALL TO ORDER II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE/MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER III. ROLL CALL IV. PUBLIC COMMENT Public Comment shall be allowed at the beginning of each meeting and opened again at ...
TOPEKA — A coalition of federal lawmakers from Kansas introduced in the U.S. House last week a bipartisan bill that could offer interest-free loans to rural hospitals “hanging on by a thread.” U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids and Tracey Mann of Kansas and representatives from Alabama, ...
TOPEKA — Rep. Susan Humphries’ powers of persuasion led to unanimous support in the Kansas House for a bill elevating prison sentences for agents of foreign countries or terrorist organizations convicted of crimes while trying to coerce U.S. citizens, legal residents or asylum seekers in ...
Tonganoxie Mayor David Frese proclaimed April as Child Abuse Prevention Month during Monday’s regular City Council meeting. The proclamation noted that during fiscal year 2024, 70,303 reports were made to child protective services in Kansas. The First Judicial District Court Appointed ...
TOPEKA — Local Kansas governments could award pricier construction contracts to select businesses under a bill that seeks to raise the ceiling for mandatory public bidding processes. Under current law, any county construction project that exceeds $25,000 must involve a public bidding ...
Editor’s note: Leavenworth County Commissioner Mike Stieben periodically submits commentary about local issues involving the County Commission. He is weighing in on a work session this past week regarding data centers as disussion about a potential center south of Tonganoxie gains ...
Kansas ordained clergy would be mandated reporters of child abuse under a bill proposed Monday in the House Judiciary Committee, and proponents hope this will be the year it passes. House Bill 2352 adds fully ordained ministers to the list of professions required to be mandatory reporters if ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids and U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt of Kansas expressed various shades of alarm about fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents taking part in an aggressive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. The death Saturday of Alex Pretti, who ...
