The Manhattan-Ogden School Board gave approval Wednesday night to exceed the revenue neutral rate for all mill levy funds for the proposed 2023-2024 budget. The proposed mill levy is 60.072, a decrease of about a half a mill from fiscal 2023. The primary reason for the mill levy going down is a slight drop in [...]
One person was injured Wednesday following a rollover crash [...]
One person was injured Wednesday following a rollover crash in southern Riley County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says a dump truck was traveling westbound on K-18 near Moore’s Lane around 12:30 p.m., when it left the roadway and entered a ditch. The truck overturned, lost it’s load, traveled through a fence and into a culvert, [...]
Earlier this year, the Election Modernization Bill was passed, with bipartisan support, amending certain statutes to enhance election transparency and security. Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab told KMAN that a key piece of this bill was altering a current statute requiring requests for county vote recounts to take place before the State Board of [...]
A Riley County judge has granted probation for a 43-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history, despite a local prosecutor’s continued request for him to be sent to prison. Desie Chatfield appeared from his jail cell Wednesday morning, following a June 27 arrest on a bench warrant for failure to appear. After prosecutors requested he [...]
As of 12:37 p.m., crews are on scene following [...]
As of 12:37 p.m., crews are on scene following a crash near mile marker 195 on Zeandale Road. Drivers are asked to please find an alternate route at this time.
Gov. Laura Kelly speaks with Tuttle Creek State Park [...]
Two Junction City teenagers have been arrested in connection [...]
Two Junction City teenagers have been arrested in connection to a pair of shootings last summer in southeast Manhattan. The Riley County Police Department says 16-year-old Shaan Hyman and 17-year-old Marvin Fernandez were both arrested Monday by Junction City Police on their Riley County District Court warrants. Hyman is charged with two counts of attempted [...]
