KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Officials of General Motors and the United Auto Workers have scheduled what they say will be a significant announcement about the company’s Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan. Federal and local officials are also expected to be on hand for the announcement, scheduled for noon Monday at the plant. The Fairfax plant employs about 3,900 people and makes the Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Malibu. GM says the plant has produced more than 12 million vehicles since 1945, and currently builds one vehicle every 58 seconds.
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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) A California company has acquired several wind projects in western Kansas. The Garden City Telegram reports that Santa Barbara-based Infinity Wind Power on Wednesday announced the purchase of the Pioneer Wind Project in Ford County from Clipper Windpower Development. The company last year also acquired two Kansas projects under development in Ford, Gray and Finney counties from local developer Zephyr Wind Power, based in Cimarron. Infinity CEO Matt Riley says the acquisitions bring Infinity’s total development pipeline in western Kansas to more than 2,500 megawatts.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Water Authority is expected to hear an update on the drought at its meeting this week. The meeting begins at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Landon State Office Building in Topeka. Also on the agenda are a report on public water supplies, and a briefing on the John Redmond Reservoir Dredging Project and the wetland program. Gov. Sam Brownback is also listed on the agenda.
Update: 911 service in Pottwatomie County was back up and running shortly after midnight Tuesday. ### Earlier story: As of now, the 911 line for Pottawatomie county is temporarily out of service. For the time being, if there are any emergencies, please call (785)457-3353 to speak with the sheriff. KMAN will let you know as soon as the 911 line in functioning again.
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Rob Ott, Manhattan City Engineer. [mp3-jplayer]
Various items on Monday’s Riley County Commission agenda required approval or consensus. The first item needing approval involved the vacation of a sewer and water easement. County Planner, Bob Isaac came forward during a public hearing to make a request in regards to the easement owned by John and Rosa Jones. Owners of lots two and seven on the Oakshore Addition, near Tuttle Creek Lake, have agreed to split the Jones’s property (lot 3) down the middle. Isaac mentioned a few obstacles he ran into when he looked into this possibility, including the house that is direct center on the…
Riley County Police are investigating a string of vehicle burglaries that took place sometime before Friday morning in three different locations in Manhattan On Friday morning around 7:13, police responded to calls at the 2900th block of Northwing Drive. Five different victims reported that their cars had been entered and miscellaneous items had been removed, with one victim reporting that her front passenger window had been damaged. Total loss from these burglaries totaled $727 On the same morning, around 8:30, two victims, located at the 2600 block of Butterfield reported that their vehicles had been rummaged through, with one having their divers…
GTM Sportswear in Manhattan, has agreed to pay 133 workers a total of $97,762 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The investigation found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and record-keeping provisions when inside sales representatives were found to be improperly classified as exempt from overtime requirements. It’s described as one of the most common violations in the sales industry with improperly classifying workers as being exempt from overtime. That’s according to Patricia Preston, the division’s district director in Kansas City, Mo. She adds The criteria for exemption from…
Manhattan High came up just short of their first Mid America Classic title in a 51-48 loss to Olathe South in the championship game Saturday night. The Indians fell behind by as many as nine points in the second quarter but came storming back to go ahead 38-36 heading into the fourth quarter. The third quarter was capped off by a buzzer beater from Par McNair to give Manhattan the lead. The lead changed hands four times in the second half before Olathe South took the lead for good midway through the fourth quarter and held off MHS for their…
A winter ice storm is approaching East Coast cities from New York to Washington Monday morning, after freezing over parts of the Midwest.