Through their Municipality Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign recently ranked Manhattan as the second most LGBT-inclusive city in Kansas with a score of 83 out of 100. A quick look at past MEI scores also indicates that Manhattan has become a more inclusive city over the past few years, as it has increased from [...]

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Riley County Police are searching for a runaway child from northern Riley County. Police said Friday 13-year-old Eylisa Bowles was last seen at her home in 20000 block of Tuttle Creek Blvd Thursday evening around 9 p.m. She’s believed to be driving a 2003 Mitsubushi Eclipse convertible with a dark-colored hood and bumper with white [...]

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This holiday season will be the final one for the Manhattan Meat Market. The business’ management team announced on its Facebook page Friday it’s closing at the end of December, due to other endeavors and priorities. The company had been part of the Manhattan business community for three years, priding itself on high quality, specialty [...]

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The Junction City Police Department and Geary County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a double fatality in the Milford Lake area involving two people who were allegedly involved in a forced entry and kidnapping incident late Thursday night. At around 10 p.m., Junction City police officers responded to incident at a Junction City address involving a [...]

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The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan continues to make new hires as the facility is now three years out from becoming fully operational. On Thursday’s edition of In Focus, NBAF officials introduced new Communications Director Katie Pawlosky, who began training with NBAF just a few weeks ago. Pawlosky spoke about the important role [...]

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Riley County commissioners approved $121,231 to be transferred from the Riley County Public Works to the county CIP fund on Thursday. Public Works Director Leon Hobson presented major transfers to parks related CIP funded projects. The department has $60,000 for a community line item divided up between all of the parks. Hobson says they would [...]

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The USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden School Board gave final approval last night to name its planned new elementary school Oliver Brown Elementary. Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid says he is looking forward to the educational pieces they will add to the building.  He spoke with Brown’s daughter Cheryl Henderson-Brown about clearing up some of the history for [...]

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The Manhattan Emergency Shelter, the city’s only homeless shelter, is giving people a chance to give back in a creative way through their Adopt-N-Ornament Tree. The tree is decorated with ornaments containing wish lists belonging to people staying at the shelter. People wanting to participate can pick out ornaments, get the items on the list, [...]

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A new police chief is taking over in Junction City. It was announced at Wednesday’s city commission meeting that John Lamb is replacing the recently retired Dan Breci. For 26 years, Lamb has served the Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff’s Department. He most recently served as Police Lieutenant over the Patrol and Community Affairs Unit and was [...]

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WABAUNSEE COUNTY— USD 330 Mission Valley Schools officials are working closely with members of the Wabaunsee County Sheriff’s Office after a pair of alleged threats this week at the school. One student was taken into custody Tuesday after the district alerted parents to a reported threat. According to Sheriff Rob Hoskins it involved a student [...]

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