Riley County may have passed the peak for the omicron variant. During Monday’s county commission meeting, Health Department Director Julie Gibbs said the county has been seeing decreasing case numbers each of the past couple weeks. In early January, the county saw its highest weekly increase with over 1,200 cases in a single report. This [...]

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The Kansas Agriculture Secretary was in Manhattan this week for the annual Riley County Livestock Association annual meeting. Mike Beam was the guest speaker at Monday’s meeting at Pottorf Hall and spoke about the value of agricultural exports, which surpassed $4 billion in 2020, the highest total in Kansas since 2014. “The first half of that (year) [...]

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After nearly setting a record high Monday, Manhattan is now bracing for a taste of winter weather as midweek approaches. The National Weather Service office in Topeka has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Riley, Pottawatomie and Geary counties from 9 p.m. this evening through noon Thursday. The forecast is calling for approximately 3 to [...]

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Among the biggest annual celebrations in numerous East and Southeast Asian cultures, Lunar New Year will be commemorated on the K-State campus with a Saturday celebration. Lunar New Year coincides with the first new moon of the 354-day-long lunar calendar, this year falling on February 1. Festivities vary and can be observed for multiple days, [...]

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