The first major winter storm of the season meant a day of vacation for students of USD 464 and a long day for city street crews.City Administrator Mike Yanez said city crews started plowing streets Monday when the snow reached a depth of 2 inches, at which they could operate without harming ...
The Tonganoxie Public Library serves as a warming center in Tonganoxie.Library director Royce Kitts said that while people always are welcome at the library, it also can serve as a place for people who might have insufficient heat in their homes to come in from the bitter cold.And on really ...
Commuters and others using highways today are cautioned to drive carefully as the area continues to dig itself out of the first major snowstorm of the winter.The Kansas Department of Transportation, in a 6 a.m. report today, said roadway conditions across Northeast Kansas vary from wet/slushy ...
Genesis Christian Academy in Tonganoxie joined several other area schools in canceling Monday classes.Snow is expected to continue to fall Monday, with a chance for blowing snow and more accumulation overnight. Wind chill is expected to be around zero in overnight as well.
Northeast Kansas roadway conditions are wet/slushy in Johnson, Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties and partly to completely snowpacked in Douglas, Brown, Nemaha, Marshall and Pottawatomie counties, the Kansas Department of Transportation is reporting. Remaining Northeast Kansas counties did not ...
Crews working overnight have attacked an icy covering that caused treacherous conditions Wednesday night on area highways.At 6 a.m. today, the Kansas Department of Transportation reported that northeast Kansas highways, including mainline lanes, ramp areas, bridges and overpasses, are in really ...
The National Weather Service and Kansas Department of Transportation officials say roads throughout the area are becoming treacherous as a slow-moving band of freezing drizzle makes its way across northeast Kansas.KDOT said highways, including mainline lanes, ramp areas, bridges and overpasses, ...
The Kansas City metro area and much of the region continues under a tornado watch and flash flood watch through 1 a.m. Saturday.The NWS said the tornado watch follows an area from Leavenworth to Bartlesville, Okla. A line of thunderstorms have the capability to produce large hail and damaging ...
Area counties are in a severe thunderstorm watch until 10 p.m. Friday.Leavenworth, Douglas, Wyandotte, Johnson and Jefferson counties are included in a watch the National Weather Service has issued. In total, the watch covers 26 counties.A severe thunderstorm watch means conditions are ...
As if scorching temperatures and an excessive heat warning weren't enough, the metro area is under a pollution alert today.The Mid-America Regional Council Air Quality Program has issued an orange Ozone Alert for today, indicating that an unhealthy level of ozone pollution, also known as smog, ...