Manhattan city commissioners expressed support Tuesday for a $150,000 funding proposal from Habitat for Humanity of the Northern Flint Hills to develop two long-term affordable homes on Dickens Avenue. The proposal would use money from the city’s workforce housing sales tax fund to rehabilitate an existing home at 3115 Dickens Ave. and construct a second [...]

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By Nathan Gaddie Incumbent Riley County Commissioner John Ford announced he will not run for the position again, no matter what the outcome of the election is. Ford announced the news and spoke more about the election Tuesday on Within Reason with Mike Matson. Ford was elected in 2018 and has held the seat since. [...]

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Owners of the Little Batch Co. on Tuesday announced they are closing its doors. The mother-daughter duo of Phyllis and Hannah Pease opened the bakery in 2018. They also owned neighboring location Parkside Station, which closed in March. Hannah Pease said a combination of factors led them to close the business. To view the full [...]

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A working smoke alarm helped an occupant escape safely from an apartment fire Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan that caused an estimated $40,000 in damage. According to the Manhattan Fire Department, crews were dispatched just after 4 p.m. to the 900 block of Osage Street, where smoke and flames were coming from a detached garage that [...]

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A charter bus with K-State branding crashed Tuesday morning in Oklahoma City while carrying a group of seventh grade students from Lawrence. Oklahoma City Police said the crash happened near Southeast 44th and Interstate Highway 35. Emergency responders pulled the bus out of a hotel parking lot after a semi-truck driving north struck it. The [...]

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A Manhattan native and K-State grad who serves on the board that will pick the next university president says he expects that person to be in place by the start of the fall semester next year. Matt Crocker, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, also says there’s no need for a turnaround artist, [...]

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With less than a week until votes are counted to elect Kansas’ newest class of legislators, Kansas House of Representatives hopeful Brenda Bandy, a Democrat running for the 67th district, raised the most money among local races with $76,766. Republican candidate Stacy Kohlmeier reported just under 20% of Bandy’s donations, with $15,375 raised during the [...]

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Riley County officials are reviewing a new annexation request from the city of Manhattan and considering more frequent coordination between the county and city legal departments, county counselor Jacob Hansen told commissioners Monday. The county received the annexation request from Manhattan the previous week. “We get 30 days from the date in which it’s provided [...]

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A Fort Riley soldier will serve 40 years in prison after he exploited children to make child pornography by pretending to be a woman. The U.S. attorney’s office on Monday said Bebak Gurung, 22, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor by producing child pornography. The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened [...]

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A Manhattan man on Monday pleaded guilty to three fentanyl distribution charges, a fraction of the charges he originally faced across three cases. David Alan Labombarbe, 39, entered a plea deal with state prosecutors in Riley County District Court and now is convicted of distributing between 1 and 3.5 grams of fentanyl, possession of fentanyl [...]

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