HUMBOLDT — Humboldt firefighters responded to a house fire early Friday afternoon in the 900 block of North Eighth Street. The house was fully engulfed in smoke as firefighters battled brutally cold temperatures as well…

Bitterly cold temperatures, snow and wind chills are heading this way. If you can, stay home and keep warm, Jason Trego, Allen County’s emergency management director, advises.  A wind chill watch takes effect Wednesday night…

SEATTLE (AP) — Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, heavy snow to mountains in Northern California and Nevada and unseasonable warmth to Texas and the Southeast.  Emergency…

LAHARPE — Add LaHarpe to the growing list of communities that were socked by exorbitant electric costs following last month’s’ bitterly cold weather. City Council members have declared a state of financial emergency, necessary to…

Utility bills are about to jump significantly for Iolans. Iola city officials announced Thursday they are bumping up electric charges associated with the bitterly cold temperatures that blanketed the area over a two-week stretch in…

HUMBOLDT — Help is on the way. A bill signed by Gov. Laura Kelly Wednesday could ease the immediate burden  Humboldt faces from its utilities-based financial crisis. Recall, rate increases on natural gas during the…

TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers moved with lightning speed Wednesday to pass legislation providing $100 million in low-interest loans to cities facing high utility bills as a result of last month’s extreme cold. The House and…

Think it’s been cold and gross this week? Imagine being a Kansas pioneer during the blizzard of 1886. In early January, just weeks before Kansas’ 25th birthday, the state was blasted by a snowstorm the…

Working in miserable conditions is nothing new for city employees. Iola Water Department employees had the “pleasure” of dealing with single-digit temperatures as they repaired a water main break in downtown Iola Tuesday afternoon. But…

The winter weather that has overwhelmed power grids unprepared for climate change and left millions without electricity in record-breaking cold kept its grip on the nation’s midsection Wednesday.  At least 20 people have died, some…