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BKRT, also known as The Big Kansas Road Trip, took place the first weekend of June in Southeast Kansas. Sponsored by the Marci Penner and the Kansas Sampler Foundation, this event has become “the thing to do” for my husband and myself. The trip annually focuses on three counties in a certain part of the state. This year, southeast Kansas, the one part of the state that that we are the least familiar. Bourbon, Cherokee and Crawford counties were the three spotlighted counties.

I wish I could tell you how many miles that I have driven in the darkness of the night. Driving down the highway, not knowing when a creature, big or small, would dart out in front of you. The sound of your truck being torn up because the deer thought your headlights were to help them to cross the road.

MANHATTAN, Kansas — Cali Newdigger from the Skyline FFA chapter was elected to serve as the 2022–23 State FFA Reporter at the 94th Kansas FFA Convention June 1–3, 2022, on the Kansas State University campus. Newdigger was among six candidates elected to a state officer position to represent 10,866 Kansas FFA members.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is doling out millions of dollars to railroad projects throughout the country in hopes of improving supply chains and passenger rail service.

LAWRENCE — Kansas public university students uneasy about the cost of their education dodged a tuition hike this fall, but won’t know until mid-June whether they’ll be dinged with higher campus fees.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Representatives from Kansas - Ron Estes and Tracey Mann joined 116 other colleagues in sending a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), expressing their concerns with a new proposed rule that would have a negative impact on U.S. agricultural producers.

High school students from across the State of Kansas will be participating in the 2022 session of the American Legion Boys State of Kansas, Sunday, June 5, through Saturday, June 11, at Kansas State University in Manhattan. The event, in its 84th year, returns to its traditional early June dates after last year’s session was postponed to early August due to the coronavirus pandemic.

TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly announced today that her request for a federal disaster declaration for the winter storms that occurred in late March has been granted. Governor Kelly made the request on May 3. Its approval will open federal funding streams for rural electric cooperatives to repair or replace infrastructure damaged by the disaster.