CHANUTE — It’s time to bite the bullet and address the city’s outdated water and wastewater plants, Chanute City Manager Todd Newman told Chanute Commissioners last week.  “We have no choice. We’re lucky they’re still…

Progress continues at the Cedarbrook Third Addition as developers prepare for another year of residential construction on Iola’s north edge. Lakeview Investment Properties, owned by Blake Boone and his mother, Jennifer Chester, launched the project…

Whether building lift stations near the Allen County Regional Airport, or helping Humboldt and LaHarpe with sewer upgrades, BG Consultants has played a role in designing a number of major projects in recent years. The…

City of Olathe Project RZ25-0007 — a 140-foot-tall cold storage warehouse bordering Lone Elm Park — is winding through the city’s approval process. The owner, the $18 billion corporation Lineage, Inc., expects public incentives: industrial…

INDEPENDENCE — The biggest challenges facing rural communities today — housing, child care, health care, educational opportunities and infrastructure — are echoed across the country. To that end, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural…

HUMBOLDT — “It takes a lot to run a city,” is how Cole Herder, Humboldt city administrator, began Wednesday’s conversation about the upcoming city budget hearing.   Not that he expects any pushback.   But…

Recent improvements at Allen County Airport have given the facility a fresh face and increasingly sophisticated technology for area pilots. And with newly installed water and sewer access, 75 acres of land for an industrial…

Construction has begun on homes in Cedarbrook Third Addition. A cement slab has been poured for the first house in the development with further construction to ensue in the next two weeks. Lakeview Investment Properties,…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it, eroding so much of the riverbank that most of…

Infrastructure work continues at the Allen County airport, including installation of water and sewer lines as part of a project that could eventually encourage development of an industrial park. Allen County Commissioners helped move the…