TOPEKA (KSNT) - Amidst a new surge in coronavirus cases, Dr. Cameron Webb, a senior policy advisor for COVID-19 equity on the White House response team, spoke with KSNT News Evening Anchor Brooke Lennington in a Zoom interview about his recommendations for Kansans.
What We’re Tracking: Warming trend ahead Lots of sunshine and dry weather Much hotter by this weekend A fairly typical summer heat pattern is setting up thanks to upper-level ridging. Humidity will be a little lower west, but the temperatures will be hotter over the western counties. To the east, temperatures will be a couple [...]
Fire and emergency crews are on the way to what is described as a large pipeline explosion in Ellsworth County.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Shawnee County 4-H Fair opens today with the arrival of the livestock in Domer Arena, the open exhibits in Landon arena, and several exhibits throughout the Stormont Vail Event Center Complex. Today's activities include livestock weigh-ins, Topeka Model Railroaders, photography contest, food contest, horticulture judging and much more.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Topeka West High School graduate Terrell Terry or T-Rell told the world through social media Thursday that he has a TV deal for his son Jordan. "Really got a TV Deal for my Son Jordan it’s time to show the world kids with disabilities are beautiful inside out “I’m Down with Down [...]
SHAWNEE COUNTY (KSNT) - The Shawnee County Health Department issued a statement Thursday stating cases of Covid-19, driven largely by the Delta variant, are rising dramatically, and urging residents to get the vaccine. The Shawnee County Health Department noted that the percent of positive cases has risen to 5.9%, which indicates the virus is spreading [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT)-- Assisted living facility residents were among the very first to be offered the COVID-19 vaccine. It is paying off for some residents by keeping them safe. Midwest Health owns multiple assisted living facilities across Topeka and they haven't had a positive COVID-19 case in over two months. Close to 100 percent of their [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT)-- Health officials at the University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus are seeing an increase in hospitalizations due to COVID-19. The number of hospitalized COVID patients has doubled within the past week. In the emergency room they saw around 25 patients with COVID symptoms in June. In July they are seeing even [...]
TOPEKA, KS (KTMJ) — A year chock full of hard work and creativity — Shawnee County 4-H members, including Derek Stahel and Caden Kuckelman, have their projects on display and ready to be judged as the annual county fair kicks off at the Stormont Vail Events Center. Stahel and Kuckelman stopped by FOX 43 AM [...]
A University of Kansas student is calling on the school to require vaccinations or masks. The petition has more than 500 signatures.
LYON COUNTY (KSNT) - On Wednesday, Lyon County Public Health was notified of the first known death in Lyon County from the Delta variant, the virus that causes COVID-19. Little is known about the person except that he was an unvaccinated 60-year-old man. This is one of 13 confirmed cases of the Delta variant in [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Frito-Lay has shed light Thursday morning that its new tentative agreement for union workers includes raises at its Topeka plant, though it's not clear what changes will come to another key issue they've gone on strike about. The company's statement says the union will have input into overtime and staffing, and that [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Shawnee County Fair kicks off in Topeka on Thursday morning. After going virtual last year due to the pandemic, the fair is back in person, but not quite back to normal. Shawnee County Fair Board Secretary Jason Schulz told KSNT News that they will not have access to Exhibition Hall and [...]
Each Olympic athlete dressed in the stars and stripes will be representing the United States, but some states are pumping out potential medalists at a much faster pace than their neighbors.
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNT) - While COVID-19 cases are rising, so are cases of RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), and it's not just children getting infected. Doctors are also seeing more people aged 65 and older come down with the virus. " We know that 2.5 million cases a year happen in that age group, we also [...]
Kansas health officials say 20 more Kansas deaths have been linked to COVID-19 in the past two days.
Saddle up! This week, a Kansas town is in the spotlight, hosting one of the biggest rodeos in the state.
An Indonesian man with the coronavirus has boarded a domestic flight disguised as his wife, wearing a niqab covering his face and carrying fake IDs and a negative PCR test result.
Highs today will make it into the lower 90s with a lot of sunshine, and we'll warm up even further tomorrow, into the mid 90s. The hottest stretch of weather will set in by the end of the week and into the weekend with temperatures peaking into the upper 90s to lower 100s. No matter [...]
TOKYO (KSNT) - The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games fired opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi Thursday after a joke he made about the Holocaust in 1998 surfaced, according to a tweet from the Associated Press. The joke came during a comedy show from 1998. Tokyo 2020 officials said they became aware of [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A major Kansas health system is declining to take patients from outside hospitals because it has too few open beds with cases of the faster-spreading COVID-19 delta variant surging. Chief Medical Officer Steve Stites at the University of Kansas Health System said Wednesday that the space problem, which is now the [...]
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A judge is considering whether Kansas’ Republican secretary of state ran afoul of the state’s open records law by ordering the removal of an election database function that generates a statewide report showing which provisional ballots were not counted. Civil rights advocates say the decision will have far-reaching implications for [...]
An Alabama doctor revealed in a social media post over the weekend that one of the last things she has to do before having to intubate her patients who are gravely ill with COVID-19 is often to explain why they can no longer take a vaccine.
Authorities are on the scene of a fatal crash. It happened at Hydraulic and 53rd Street North just before noon.
HOLTON (KSNT) - A Holton widow is using art to memorialize her husband and other victims lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. Becky Bratcher's husband, Rocky, died from coronavirus earlier in 2021. The pair were sweethearts since they were teenagers, and had just celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary. "I lost my husband February 25 of this [...]
