Celia Hack

Kaylee Fritchen has worked at the U.S. Forestry Service since 2022, spending half the year undertaking intense manual labor to clear trails in an Idaho forest.

Kansas has a lack of housing in both rural and urban areas. The bill would focus on areas with “minimal building activity.”

The bill proposes requiring courts to automatically seal certain eviction records and expunge others after two years.

At issue is the physical area the state analyzed in a 2023 health study near the 29th and Grove contamination site.

The 29th and Grove site is a 2.9-mile long plume of contaminated groundwater located just south of K-96 Fishing Lake.

The 40-year-old bookstore downtown is hanging on, but it faces numerous challenges: the internet upended the book business, and, according to owner Philip McComish, rare book collecting is becoming less common.

Erin Clarke, a graduate of Kapaun Mount Carmel, has millions of readers on her Well Plated blog, where she shares everyday recipes.

The new program will focus on access, belonging and inclusion for everyone while “emphasizing broader definitions of diversity."

The program manager estimates around 50 landlord-tenant cases in Sedgwick County had been mediated as of late September, more than a year after the program begun. Meanwhile, the county typically sees around 5,000 eviction filings, or more, per year.

The shelter can hold up to 260 people once it’s fully built out. It’s meant for single men and women.