KMAN Staff

The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad is holding a fundraiser for track maintenance. This is the train that operates from Abilene to Enterprise and back during the spring and summer. General Manager Ross Boelling says the railroad wasn’t well maintained by previous ownership. The project will be done in two phases, with the first starting [...]

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Numerous groups took to the stage at Forum Hall in the K-State Student Union to commemorate the university’s Lunar New Year Celebration on Saturday. See a selection of images from the afternoon below. Click here for a preview of the event. The 2022 program is presented by the Vietnamese Students Association, Society of Asian Scientists [...]

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Geary County Schools USD 475 plans to highlight its strategic plan at a rescheduled 2022 State of Education address. Superintendent Dr. Reginald Eggleston joined KMAN’s In Focus Friday, discussing numerous topics including the address. That event is now planned for March 22nd at 7 p.m. at the Junction City High School auditorium after being postponed [...]

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USD 383 is seeking public input on a budget plan for millions of dollars of federal funding coming to the district. The Manhattan-Ogden school district was allocated over $7.25 million by Congress in March of 2021 intended to help elementary and secondary schools respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in various ways. This is the third [...]

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Valentine’s Day is just over a week away and downtown Manhattan invites you to celebrate. Gina Snyder, Downtown Manhattan Incorporated executive director, tells KMAN that several restaurants are running specials during the holiday weekend and on Valentine’s day itself. She says whether it’s dining in or picking up or whether its a full meal, drinks, [...]

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Governor Laura Kelly recently vetoed the congressional redistricting map. The map splits Wyandotte County into two separate congressional districts. It also separates the city of Lawrence from Douglas County and places urban boundaries of Lawrence into the Big First Congressional District. 51st district representative, Ron Highland, voted present on the bill the first time around [...]

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Following the recent winter storm in Kansas, the American Red Cross says blood drive cancellations as a result of the weather cost the organization at least a day’s worth of blood. They say that only compounds the existing blood shortage in the nation, which has led the Red Cross to declare its first-ever national blood [...]

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Sunflower CASA in Manhattan continues to help children in several ways. Carson Kober, executive director tells KMAN that this past year was successful for Sunflower CASA. She says they helped more children in 2021 than in any year ever before. Part of that is due to the extended services of Sunflower CASA, that actually extend [...]

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64th district representative Suzi Carlson was arrested on DUI charges late Monday, according to police records. Shawnee County’s daily booking report shows the Republican lawmaker was booked into the Shawnee County Detention Center at 11 p.m. January 31, posting 2 thousand dollars bond about 3 hours later. Police allege Carlson recorded a blood alcohol level [...]

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Riley County may have passed the peak for the omicron variant. During Monday’s county commission meeting, Health Department Director Julie Gibbs said the county has been seeing decreasing case numbers each of the past couple weeks. In early January, the county saw its highest weekly increase with over 1,200 cases in a single report. This [...]

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