After last weekend’s cold snap and first precipitation in two months, more cold weather and snow is expected this week for the Hays area. Hays received 4.3 inches of snow and 0.25 of an inch of moisture from the weekend storm, said National Weather Service meteorologist Wesley Hovorka.
A Louisiana federal judge has put a hold on President Joe Biden’s mandate that Head Start workers be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S.
TOPEKA — Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Democratic state Treasurer Lynn Rogers made a splash in December with public service announcements on television or social media with the look and feel of commercials useful in their 2022 election campaigns.
It has been about three months since CherryRoad Media purchased the Hays Daily News and I became its publisher. In those three months many people have been working hard to reimagine this newspaper as the leading source of local news for Hays and Ellis County. There have been many tasks that needed to be completed to successfully break away from the previous ownership group. Finally, this week we have reached the point where the Hays Daily News is being prepared entirely by our own team. With this transition we will be implementing several changes.
A $7,200 grant from the Heartland Community Foundation will provide the Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas with new automated external defibrillators (AED’s). The new equipment will benefit individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in four of Ellis County’s residential living locations.
TOPEKA — The 4.3 magnitude earthquake south of Salina in the first week of December was concerning enough hundreds of people contacted officials to report the home-rattling tremblor.It turned out to be a precursor to more than a dozen quakes in the region that included a 4.0 at Gypsum and 3.5 at Assaria on Dec. 15, the Christmas surprise 2.0 in Marion, the 3.9 near Lindsborg and 3.3 at Salina on Sunday, and a triple-header Monday morning ranging from 2.5 to 2.8 on the perimeter of Salina.
TOPEKA — The Kansas chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is urging the governor to issue an executive order aimed at stripping discriminatory language from residential property documents.
PLAINVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Taylor Ayers wanted a job, but at just 13 years of age he was having a tough time finding one.
A coalition of community groups demanded Monday that a special prosecutor be appointed in the case of a Black youth who died following a physical struggle with staff at a Kansas juvenile center. In a Wichita rally and letter to local officials, community activists also called for the release of video and the names of the individuals involved in the death of 17-year-old Cedric Lofton.