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K-42 to Get Resurfaced in Pratt, Barber, Kingman Counties

Tuesday, June 28 by Adam Kolb

A nearly $8.8 million resurfacing project will start soon on about 38 miles of K-42 in Pratt, Barber and Kingman counties. The Kansas Department of Transportation project involves a recycle and hot-mix-asphalt overlay on K-42 in those counties. The work will also add 2-foot shoulders on some... Read More.

Day 3, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report

Wednesday, June 15 by Aaron Napier

By Julia Debes, Kansas Wheat This is day 3 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas Wheat Commission, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Association. Kansas wheat producers are in the cab and cutting now across... Read More.

Foster Parents Few in Many Rural Kansas Counties

Saturday, June 4 by Aaron Napier

By Blaise Mesa, Kansas News Service TOPEKA, Kansas — More than half the counties in the state rely on 10 or fewer families to take in foster children. Roughly one-tenth of the counties in Kansas rely on one licensed foster home each. And those relatively few families looking... Read More.