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Portland Public Schools has a plan to transition students from digital learning back into the classroom.As it stands, hundreds of PPS students are still impacte

The company brought in to direct the modernization of the Kansas unemployment insurance system is plotting a timeline of 26 months.

Federal deadline for getting a COVID-19 vaccination raises questions about whether people losing jobs in Kansas qualify for unemployment benefits.

It also noted that the bus was not from a local school district. HOWARD COUNTY - The Howard County Sheriffs Office posted photos of a school bus traveling through high floodwaters on Tuesday. Sheriff Jeff Oswald said to "use common sense" and to "never drive through flood water." The school bus has been removed from the water but the road remains closed until further notice @KOMUnewspic.twitter.com/lTg2qehcUj— Ben Beythoun (@BBeythoun) May 18, 2021 The photos were taken on Route Z, between...

One area community may soon be without a designated police department. Howard County Sheriff Jeff Oswald and the New Franklin Board of Alderman discussed eliminating the New Franklin Police Department at the most recent meeting of the Board on January 11, 2021. Mike Wise, police chief of the New Franklin Police Department, announced via Facebook on Tuesday, if the department is eliminated, the city would instead rely on the Howard County Sheriff’s Department, which in turn, would have a dedic...

Why did Fayette police raid a Black student’s house twice late at night? By Rebecca Rivas It was 8:30 p.m. on Halloween night, and Christopher Turner Jr. and his girlfriend had just gotten home from a Central Methodist University football game in Kansas.  Turner, 24, plays right defensive tackle for the team, and both are seniors at the small private college in Fayette, about 30 miles northwest of Columbia. The team suffered a grueling defeat that day, and Turner was exhausted. All he wanted...