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File photo By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post St. Joseph residents will have the opportunity to experience the bus for free on Thursday. St. Joseph Transit general manager Michelle Schultz says it's part of a nationwide campaign 'Dump the Pump' "It's to encourage everyone to ride the bus, to give them the opportunity to see what the bus has to offer and see if it's something that might fit into their schedule," Schultz tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "Dump the Pump basically means you're not putting gas into your car that day, you're going to ride th...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Once again, the name of the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department is being used to exploit residents. But this time, Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett says the criminals are going higher up and using his name to scare people. "They call and they want our citizens to provide them gift card information, attain the gift card and provide them the information so they can siphon the money off the gift cards," Puett tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "I've heard from a couple other sheriffs throughout the state that they're saying that as well as ...

2019 Missouri River flood/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostWork continues to restore levees broken by the 2019 Missouri River flood, four years after the devastating flood.Mike Dulin with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas City says work has been completed to repair a major levee in Holt County damaged by the flood, the Holt County #9 Levee.Four major levee projects remain."One on the Kansas side, just a little upstream of Topeka, and then three over on the Missouri side along the Missouri River at various locations; one north of Kansas City, one in central Missouri near B...

Gavins Point Dam/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostFlows into the Missouri River from the six upstream reservoirs have improved as drought conditions ease in the upper Missouri River Basin, but only to the point of slightly above average.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been watching those flows.Chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management for the Corps, John Remus, cautions the improvement hasn't been enough to convince the Corps to return flows from Gavins Point Dam to normal."Even with a near-average runoff forecast, the reservoirs remain below the base of the flo...

Stock photo by Matt Pike. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostThe city of St. Joseph is holding a series of public meetings over the next week to give the general public more information on the RiverBluff Gateway Project.The city received a $2.5 million grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development for this project, which will focus on four areas of the city - the Southside centered on King Hill Avenue, the 6th Street Corridor, Downtown and Northside centered on St. Joseph Avenue.City spokesperson Mary Robertson says this project will encompass several different things."Doing some s...