***A WIND CHILL ADVISORY is in effect for the entire viewing area starting at midnight tonight and lasting through noon on Friday due to brutally cold wind chills.*** What We're Tracking: Very cold weather ahead Few more snow chances Dangerously cold wind chills through early next week Our cloudy days continue to close out the [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - A virtual public meeting to discuss current design plans for the I-70 Polk-Quincy Project is scheduled from 5:00-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 3. The meeting will focus on design plans and a timeline for replacing the existing bridge. The current bridge was designed and built in the late 1950s as part of [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - With Shawnee County no longer in a red zone of “uncontrolled” spread, officials announced students will be returning to in-person classes. "The county has an orange rating for the second consecutive week. Therefore, we will reopen Monday, February 15, 2021, for in-person learning... If a parent would prefer to keep their [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The extreme cold temps have slowed construction on the St. Jude Dream Home this week. To date, the basement and foundation walls, as well as the garage and basement floors, have had concrete poured. The framing is finished along with the electrical, HVAC, insulation and plumbing. Up next for the Dream [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Shawnee County Health Department is splitting its allocations of COVID-19 vaccines to get them to two core groups, the department announced Thursday. The department will use its allocation primarily to vaccinate education staff for schools for kindergarten through 12th grade. Dillons, Walmart and Doug's Pharmacy will start getting weekly allotments [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - Two Kansas men identified as Proud Boys have been charged with conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 D.C. riot at the Capitol, according to the FBI. Special agents arrested William Norman Chrestman and Christopher Charles Kuehn, both of Olathe, Thursday, the Kansas City FBI branch reported. They also arrested Louis Enrique [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - February is Black History month. The Ritchie House, 1116 S. E. Madison St. played a big part in Topeka's Black History during the mid 1800's. "We do tours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. showing off the underground railroad which is the Ritchie House." Bob Totten, [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Big 12 Conference announced its full 2021 football schedule Thursday, including for K-State and KU. Featuring 12 games, the Jayhawks get six home games and six on the road. K-State gets seven games at home and five on the road. View the KU schedule below, and the K-State schedule above.
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - A new group wants to save Topeka's long-standing Menninger Clock Tower. The group named Save The Menninger Clock Tower formed in hopes of keeping the tower standing, and that the tower "becomes a vibrant part of Topeka's community." “We don’t want to see this piece of Kansas history erased," group organizer [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - Educators at Shawnee County schools will start getting the COVID-19 vaccine starting next week if they want it, according to the Shawnee County Health Department. Here's what the health department has said so far about vaccinating area teachers: K-12 teachers, faculty, food staff, bus drivers and related education staff can get [...]
Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial will continue in the Senate Thursday, just weeks after President Joe Biden took office following the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday afternoon, after hearing arguments on constitutionality from both sides, the Senate voted 56-44 that it is constitutional to try a former president on impeachment charges. [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - Emergency crews went to the scene of a Topeka building struck by a car Thursday morning. Shawnee County Dispatch confirmed the report of a car hitting the I.H.S. Salon at 5642 SW 29th St. around 9:50 a.m. Witnesses at the scene report the driver of the car was able to get [...]
LYON COUNTY, Kan. (KSNT) - Northern Heights High School in Lyon County went on lockdown at 7:28 a.m. after deputies for the Lyon County Sheriff's Office received an "imminent threat." Deputies made contact with a juvenile male, 16 years old, who was taken into custody. The Lyon County Sheriff's Office believes the suspect acted alone [...]
Editor's Note: The initial version of this story reported that Shawnee County rose out of uncontrolled spread for the first time in six weeks. The county's public health system capacity stress rose out of uncontrolled from 18 to 10, which is moderate. TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - Shawnee County is no longer in a red zone [...]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNT) - Wichita firefighters and EMS crews were busy Wednesday afternoon trying to rescue a dog that had fallen through the ice at 14018 E. Whitewood. The call came in around 2:30 p.m. A Sedgwick County spokesperson said the dog was stranded about 30 feet out in a frozen pond when Sedgwick County [...]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNT) - With freezing temperatures, what is one thing you think about doing? For some Kansans, it is going to the zoo. With bitter winds and snow on the ground, there are not many animals peeking outside or hanging around. Sedgwick County Zoo assistant marketing director Joseph Pepoon said even fewer visitors were [...]
OTTAWA COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — Kansas Highway Patrol reported that around 7 p.m. Wednesday, they received a call of a wrong way driver traveling southbound in the northbound lanes on US 81 in southern Ottawa County. While responding to that call, KHP received notification of a significant crash in the northbound lanes of US 81. [...]
A few flurries are possible today with highs in the middle 10s, better chances for snow arrive Friday night into Saturday that may provide a chance for a minor accumulation by the end of the day as even colder air settles in for the weekend. Dangerously cold air arrives beginning tomorrow, but more so later [...]
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is headed to Washington to meet with President Joe Biden and other governors about COVID-19 relief efforts. It marks her first trip out of the state since the pandemic began and comes just days after the state ended its quarantine requirements for visitors and residents [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Topeka Fire Department reported they found smoke and flames coming from a single story home in Central Topeka. Fire crews received a call around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday night about a house fire at 1628 SW Harrison St. near Topeka Boulevard. According to the Fire Marshal Todd Harrison firefighters fought the [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT)--- Lawmakers heard from the Kansas Department of Labor in their final day of hearings on a bill to revamp the state's unemployment system on Wednesday. The state's unemployment department testified as a neutral opponent, sharing its thoughts on the bill, which would help update the department's antiquated computer system, and help employers [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KSNT) - The Kansas City Royals traded Wednesday for Andrew Benintendi in a three-way team deal with the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets. According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, the Royals traded for former Red Sox outfielder Benintendi, sending Khalil Lee to the Mets and Franchy Cordero to the Red [...]
CARBONDALE, Kan. (KSNT) - Parents and teachers in the Santa Fe Trail School District addressed the school board Wednesday night after starting a petition, requesting the superintendent and principal of the high school resign. This started because the principal of the high school was not going to renew the contract for a beloved teacher, Mr. [...]
SILVER LAKE, Kan. (KSNT) - Friday Night Lights will feel different for Silver Lake football players soon. The USD 372 Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve a project that would turn the football field from grass to turf. The district is partnering with Mammoth Sports Construction in Meriden to get the new turf. The [...]
MANHATTAN, Kan (KSNT) - It's the question many of us ask ourselves daily, when will life return to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic? Bars open past midnight, restaurants without limited capacity, all of those things have come back to mind with the rollout of a vaccine. "Currently with our percent positive trending down [...]
