Riley County recently welcomed a new Budget and Finance Officer. Brittany Phillips took on the role July 6th. Before joining Riley County, she served as board treasurer for the USD 473 Chapman School District. Phillips has also spent time in municipal budgeting for the city of Chapman. Her responsibilities will include preparing and coordinating budgets [...]
The American Red Cross, Riley County EMS, Manhattan Fire Department and Riley County Police Department will be hosting the 20th annual Battle of the Badges Blood Drive this week. The event starts at 11:30 today and goes through 6:00pm at the St. Thomas More Catholic Church at the 2900 block of Kimball Avenue in Manhattan. [...]
UPDATE: This story was updated with new information about the details of the arrest. A Wichita man was arrested on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. According to RCPD, 36-year-old Matthew Hinton was arrested just before 3:00pm at City Park on Fremont Street after a call was placed into the station at 2:15pm that Hinton was having intimate [...]
All-day preliminary examinations took place Friday for a pair of suspects at the center of a Riley County murder investigation 24-year-old Jordan Prather and 27-year-old Edward Wright are both charged in the February 2022 shooting death of 21-year-old Joshua Wardi, a Fort Riley soldier gunned down outside an Aggieville bar. The pair, along with 21-year-old [...]
Severe storms are in the forecast for the Manhattan area Friday. According to the National Weather Service, the focus for storm development shifts to southern Nebraska as a line late morning storms enter northeast Kansas and will greatly depend on how the low level moisture recovers from storms in Oklahoma Friday morning. The Storm Prediction [...]
Western Working Lands for Wildlife hosted their 10th annual workshop in Manhattan Wednesday and Thursday, addressing their innovative ways of conserving America’s grasslands. WLFW National Coordinator Tim Griffiths explained more about the organization’s mission. This is the first year WLFW’s workshop was held in the great plains rather than the sagebrush landscape. WLFW Science Advisor [...]
Fort Riley will conduct an energy resilience readiness exercise on July 26. Black Start is a mandated power outage designed to test the installation’s emergency response. The exercise will happen between 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security Clay Nauman says the exercise provides an opportunity to make sure all [...]
A Manhattan man was among three injured in a crash this week in Marshall County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says it happened around noon Wednesday at the junction of US-36 and K-99 involving an SUV and a pickup. Authorities say the SUV was southbound when it missed a stop sign at the junction and was [...]
Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo presented the newest version of the 2024 budget at Thursday’s meeting. Included were new dollar amounts for the adjusted cost of living adjustment for employees. The new payroll amount adjusted by the approved 5% COLA is $1.22 million. The total amount in COLA was increased due to new positions that [...]
A 44-year-old Manhattan man was arrested Wednesday morning on six counts alleging violation of the offender registration act. Michael Nash is additionally charged with two aggravated counts thereof. The charges were brought upon Nash for failing to ful...
