CHANUTE — Repairs to Chanute’s 21st Street overpass spanning U.S. 169 has begun this week. The Kansas Department of Transportation announced in a press release that the highway will be reduced to one lane within…

TOPEKA — Kansas Department of Transportation secretary Calvin Reed pointed to workforce shortages as a significant challenge to the state’s multibillion-dollar, 10-year Eisenhower transportation program. Reed, nominated by Gov. Laura Kelly and endorsed by the…

Do we need to re-learn how we merge on the freeway?  The Kansas Department of Transportation says yes. But are we open to re-thinking something we have done the same way for years? Since 2016,…

The Allen County Regional Airport was recently awarded two grants totaling more than $310,000.  That’s on top of the $5.6 million in federal and state funding that has flowed into the airport in the past…

Local, county and state officials are bracing for a predicted cold snap. With Allen County on the southern edge of a winter storm expected to bring blizzard-like conditions elsewhere in the state, and sub-zero temperatures…

Allen County Road and Bridge Director Mark Griffith and the Kansas Department of Transportation said U.S. 169 near Chanute, which has been closed to traffic for reconstruction, is slated to reopen late Wednesday afternoon.

Allen County has spent months preparing for highway construction work south of Humboldt, which is now expected to begin in early August. When it happens, it will cause heavy truck traffic to travel on county…

HUMBOLDT — A $2.1 million state transportation grant will allow Monarch Cement to build nearly 9,000 feet of railroad tracks and eliminate about 2,800 truckloads of deliveries each year.  Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas Department…

Most of those who use the county’s general transportation program need to go to the store or medical appointments. Allen County Clerk Sherrie Riebel last week gave commissioners an update on the transportation program, as…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is facing a staffing shortage in its Department of Transportation that could slow the clearing of highways in winter storms, the agency said Tuesday. The department said it is about…