Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced the signing of a new executive order during a news conference today. Executive Order No. 20-22 extends relief for motor carriers traveling in Kansas. “It will allow motor carriers to continue offering quick and efficient delivery of resources needed across Kansas to combat this health crisis,” Kelly said. Specifically, the order will ease certain restrictions and requirements. “The order lifts certain weight restrictions and permitting requirements to allow needed medical supplies, food shipments and other items to move through Kansas as quickly as possible,” Kelly said. “These exceptions apply only to motor carriers actively participating…
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K-State and Wichita State University are partnering up to offer a new satellite nursing program. The five-year program allows students to earn both a Bachelor of Science from the K-State College of Health and Human Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Wichita State’s College of Health Professions. Students will spend the first three years at K-State and then apply to spend the next two years in Wichita State nursing program. Wichita State will begin taking students into it’s program beginning in Fall of 2021 and will take on up to 20 new students each semester. The program…
WICHITA, Kan. — Sedgwick County has told its 2,500 employees in an email that it is looking for people to voluntarily furlough amid the coronavirus pandemic. An email Friday from County Manager Tom Stolz says the furlough will span from April 19 to May 23. The Wichita Eagle reports employees could be called back before if “services are able to return to normal-functioning capacity.” The Sedgwick County Commission is expected to weigh in during its Wednesday meeting.
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — Even record-high unemployment claims do not capture the full extent of job losses in Kansas amid the coronavirus outbreak. Some people do not qualify for unemployment benefits and others are choosing to find temporary work to tide them over until businesses reopen. Many others simply cannot get through to the overwhelmed Kansas Department of Labor. The state’s 43-year-old mainframe computer cannot keep up with claims and telephone lines are jammed with frustrated callers. Last week more than 50,000 new unemployment claims were filed in Kansas.
WICHITA, Kan. — Kansas police are investigating the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman in Wichita. Wichita television station KSNW-TV reports Aubrey Resendez died after an early Monday morning shooting. Wichita police told the station that an 18-year-old man was driving Resendez and another passenger when they got into a disturbance with people in a silver truck. Police say someone in the truck fired multiple shots at the car and hit Resendez. The driver and the other passenger were not hurt. But Resendez was taken to a hospital and later died. Police say the shooting wasn’t random.
On Monday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with KSU Vet Med Dr. Raelene Wouda. We also spoke with Laura Ebert and Casie Hartwich with the Wamego Strong Committee.
Manhattan Area Technical College has been moved online which has provided a challenge for the hands on classes like welding. Manhattan Area Technical College president Jim Genandt says how they have adapted. “With welding auto tech, things like that they’re doing as much as they can online and by demonstrate video demonstration using zoom, etc. And then when we can get back on campus, we’ll get those kids back into the labs to finish off so we can do the demo, you know, check off the competencies,”Genandt said. Also the nursing program has been going through similar hurdles. “Healthcare has…
Tuttle Creek Lake levels are lower than this time last year; a time when flooding was just around the corner. Operations Project Manager at Tuttle Creek Reservoir Brian McNulty says around this time last year the lake was 35 ft higher than it is now. As of Friday morning, the lake was only 5 ft over than normal level. Currently, the lake is only 3.5% capacity, compared to over 50% last March. “March of last year, it was wet here as well as all the way up the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Montana,” says McNulty. Other surrounding lakes are also doing…
The Wamego Health Center is temporarily changing from a walk-in clinic to a drive-thru clinic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ascension Via Christi President Bob Copple explains: Copple jokes that transitioning back to a walk-in clinic in the future may be difficult. Copple advises patients with respiratory symptoms to call ahead before visiting the clinic so staff can be prepared. For more info about the Wamego Health Center, visit wamegohealthcenter.org.