What We’re Tracking: Heat Advisory Monday through Wednesday Storms possible late Tuesday Hot week ahead Continued warm and muggy tonight with low temperatures struggling to drop into the middle to upper 70s by early Tuesday morning. Light southerly wind through the night, as well. Try to limit your time outdoors over the next few days, [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Big Boy left its home base at the Union Pacific Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 5 and traveled south across Oklahoma and Texas on the first leg of its tour, which ends Sept. 7 upon its return to Wyoming. This is the first time Big Boy has gone on tour [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Stormont Vail Events Center announced on Monday the addition of a new arena football team. "I am proud to announce today that Topeka will have the return of arena football in 2022. This is very exciting for me, I am excited for Topeka, I am excited for the fans that fun [...]
LAWRENCE (AP) — The city of Lawrence and Douglas County are adding to the local mandates aimed at controlling the more contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. They announced the mask requirements Friday. The rules take effect Monday and apply whether someone has been vaccinated against COVID-19 or not. Their announcements came the same day the University of [...]
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have begun five days of town hall meetings on redrawing the state’s political boundaries. Their first three sessions Monday came ahead of the release of the census data they need to do the job and with Republicans facing accusations that they are rushing the hearings. The House and Senate [...]
NEMAHA COUNTY (KSNT) - A winner has been declared in a school board race in Nemaha County. In the August 3rd primary, the top two vote-getters were to advance to the November General Election. In the race for USD 115 School Board, Position 1, Amy Sudbeck won with 82 votes, followed by Doug Dalinghaus and [...]
10 day quarantine is necessary for anyone from Kansas, who is not fully vaccinated, and attended the Garth Brooks concert at Arrowhead.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Indoor football is coming to Topeka next year. Stormont Vail Events Center, working together with Visit Topeka and the Shawnee County Commission, announced the plans for a new indoor arena football team on Monday. The yet-to-be-named team will play in the Champions Indoor League beginning in February 2022. Six weekend home games [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are in Topeka Monday to tour a back-to-school vaccination clinic at Topeka High School. Mr. Emhoff and Secretary Cardona also participated in a listening session with high school and college students who have been helping their community through the pandemic, including leading outreach efforts to encourage [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Christmas is still more than four months away, but volunteers at the Topeka Zoo are already preparing for a popular holiday event. Volunteers are wrapping trees in lights for the second annual Zoo Lights event. It takes three and a half months to wrap all the lights necessary to bring the popular [...]
More sunshine, heat, and humidity are on tap for today. Temperatures will be in the upper 90s with several spots in our northwestern counties seeing lower triple digits. Humidity will remain fairly high across the area for the next several days, as well - bringing our heat index values up to 105° to 110°. A [...]
MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) - The City of Manhattan is set to reopen parts of North Third Street Monday after repairing sinkholes. The holes were discovered just north of Poyntz Avenue near the Manhattan Town Center. The city quickly closed down the street for repair last week. Street Fleet & Storm Water Superintendent Jeff Davis said [...]
HOLTON (KSNT) - The Jackson County Sheriff's Office identified a Holtan man who died Friday night in a UTV accident, according to a news release. Deputies identified 34-year-old Jack Minde as the driver in the deadly accident. The Sheriff's Office received the report of a crashed UTV around 11 p.m. Friday, and found Minde pinned [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Big Boy World War II Locomotive is scheduled to make a stop at the Great Overland Station Monday on its 10-state tour across the country, according to a news release. Big Boy is scheduled to pull into the Topeka station at 2 p.m. Monday before making its way to Lawrence by [...]
UPDATE AT 9:00 P.M.: The Kansas Turnpike Authority said that both suspects are in custody as of Sunday night and the scene has been cleared in McLouth. JEFFERSON COUNTY (KSNT) -Three Kansas law enforcement agencies are looking for two men Sunday evening after they escaped from a stolen car, according to the Jefferson County Emergency [...]
What We’re Tracking: Heat Advisory for Monday Storms possible late Tuesday Hot week ahead Muggy weather prevails through the night with temperatures struggling to drop into the middle 70s by early Monday morning. Wind will remain fairly light from the southeast at 5-10mph. More sunshine and heat on tap for Monday. Temperatures will be in [...]
