The Manhattan City Commission has approved a sale and purchase agreement with online retail giant Amazon for a future warehouse to be built in the city’s business park, near the airport. Amazon is acquiring the roughly 15-acre tract to develop a 70,000-square-foot warehouse for “last mile” delivery services. Daryn Soldan, director of economic development at [...]

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By Emma Loura USD 383 officials are not renewing the contract for Bergman Elementary principal Haley Lawson. The Manhattan-Ogden school board on Wednesday will make a final decision on the non-renewal for the 2025-26 school year, according to meeting documents. That means she will leave at the end of her current contract. The school year [...]

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Salman Shinwari, 17, was receiving treatment at Children’s Mercy hospital in Kansas City for injuries from the accident when he died Wednesday morning. On the afternoon of May 7, Shinwari was driving on US highway 77 in Geary County when his car crossed the center line and hit an oncoming vehicle. He was taken to [...]

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The Kansas Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in the case of a Manhattan man convicted of murder. Kamahl Bobian was convicted in November 2023 of murdering his estranged wife, Shanell, while she slept. He is serving a life sentence. Bobian is appealing the conviction on the basis of what his attorney describes as “prosecutorial [...]

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By Rose Gruenbacher The Riley County Police Department on Monday presented three budget options, with the highest being an increase of more than 5% over this year’s budget. The Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Board, or police board, heard the proposals at its meeting Monday after denying a proposal of more than 7% last month. [...]

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A Manhattan woman and two others were injured in a Monday morning crash near Milford State Park. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a northbound Chevy Suburban attempted a U-turn on US-77, just north of the K-57 junction, but did so in front of a northbound Ford Flex, resulting in the crash. Authorities say 36-year-old [...]

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City commissioners are expected on Tuesday night to consider approval of a purchase and sale agreement with Amazon, totaling $206,010 for a roughly 15 acre tract of land in the Manhattan Business Park, west of the airport. The Seattle-based company plans to build a 70,000-square-foot warehouse, which will reportedly serve a broader region around Manhattan [...]

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A Manhattan businesswoman is seeking one of three seats on the city commission, citing a desire to serve the underserved. Amber Starling has been an active and vocal participant in city meetings for the past year. “I walk the walk,” she said. “I’m a living-wage employer who built my business from scratch, and I’ve contributed [...]

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Multiple rounds of storms are expected across the area today, beginning early this afternoon in eastern Kansas. Forecasters say additional storm development is likely further west later in the day, with those storms tracking east into the evening hours. The main threats include large hail, damaging winds, and the possibility of a few tornadoes. Storms [...]

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Two people were hospitalized after a carbon monoxide incident late Saturday morning at a hotel on Manhattan’s southwest side. Firefighters were dispatched to the DoubleTree by Hilton, just before 11 a.m. and found elevated carbon monoxide levels inside the hotel. The hotel was evacuated to allow crews to monitor the atmospheric conditions throughout the building. [...]

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