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Closings and late starts for the Tonganoxie area on Nov. 26

Here's a list of closings and late openings due to Winter Storm Bruce:SCHOOL CLOSINGS• Tonganoxie USD 464• Genesis Christian Academy• Basehor-Linwood USD 458• McLouth USD 342• Easton USD 449• Lansing USD 469• Leavenworth USD 453• University of Kansas Main Campus and Edwards ...

Winter Storm Bruce causing several cancellations in area

Winter Storm Bruce is making for an extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend for many students and teachers in the area.All Leavenworth County school districts — Tonganoxie USD 464, Basehor-Linwood USD 458, Lansing USD 469, Leavenworth USD 453 and Easton USD 449 (Pleasant Ridge) — all will ...

Leavenworth County under tornado watch; red flag warning set for Tuesday

Tonganoxie is under a tornado watch until 10 p.m. Monday, while a wind advisory is set to end at 6 p.m. Monday.The National Weather Service issued the wind advisory about 1:40 p.m., with the tornado watch being issued just before 3 p.m.A red flag warning, which means conditions are strong for ...

Weather in Tonganoxie causes outages, postponement

Crews worked overnight to fix power outages in Tonganoxie and elsewhere in northeast Kansas, thanks to severe weather Monday night.Westar Energy’s website reported five outages in Tonganoxie still affecting about 1,800 customers just before 11 p.m.According to residents’ social media ...

Norway: An adventure of a lifetime

Editor’s note: Reno Bobwhites 4-H Club member Catherine Davidson spent time in Norway as part of the 4-H International Exchange Program. These are accounts of her adventure, which will be divided into parts for a series. Davidson takes classes at Johnson County Community College and also ...

Get out, drought: Kansas currently completely free from dry status

What would eventually become Kansas was once described as an arid region barely hospitable enough for habitation.“These vast plains may become in time as celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa,” the explorer Zebulon Pike wrote in 1810.Western portions of the Sunflower State were part of ...

Kansas sees more tornadoes than normal, but most weak

Wichita ? Meteorologists say Kansas saw more tornadoes than normal this year, but all but a few were weak and short-lived.The Wichita Eagle reports there were 108 tornadoes in Kansas by the end of August, 18 more than normal for that period. Nationwide there were 971 tornadoes through October ...

Icy road conditions claim 4 more lives in Kansas

Andover ? Authorities in Kansas are blaming four more traffic deaths in the Wichita area on the icy conditions gripping the state and other parts of the nation's midsection.Icy roads caused a Friday afternoon rollover crash that killed two teenage passengers about 10 miles southeast of Newton, ...

Scientists fly Kansas sky to study ferocious storms

Kansas City, Mo. ? The radar screens in the jetliner show massive storm systems around Wichita and Dodge City growing and beginning to merge.Any commercial aircraft in the area have already diverted. But this DC-8 heads right between the storms. Then it flies circles around them, The Kansas ...

Sirens failed to sound in Nickerson as tornado hit area

Nickerson ? Tornado sirens failed to go off in Nickerson as a tornado hit the area.Evan Seiwert with Reno County Emergency Management tells The Hutchinson News that none of the town's tornado sirens activated during severe weather Monday evening.Seiwert said the sirens had passed a weekly test. ...