All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 30 2012 // Kansas legislators have begun work on a bill that would create a special fund to cover the state’s share of disaster assistance.Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the Kansas adjutant general, testified before the Senate...
Apr 27 2012 // The recent outbreak of severe weather in Kansas had storm chasers out in full force. So many of them, in fact, that emergency officials everywhere are taking notice, and putting out warnings.In Indiana, Delaware County...
Apr 26 2012 // With debris cleanup now in its second week, immediate relief efforts for Kansas tornado victims have been scaled back as disaster help moves into the next stage.The Small Business Administration is taking applications for...
Apr 23 2012 // Sedgwick County, Kansas, officials say the tornado that hit Oaklawn and southeast Wichita on April 14 caused an estimated $146.3 million in damage.County officials say the tornado damaged or destroyed 776 homes and 86...
Apr 18 2012 // The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita is closed this week to clean up from damage it sustained during the weekend storms.Museum director Lon Smith estimated the museum suffered between $100,000 and $150,000 in damage. But...
Apr 18 2012 // Tornado damage in Kansas’ aircraft manufacturing hub could have a ripple effect on the industry, analysts have warned, even as airplane makers Boeing and Hawker Beechcraft and nearby parts maker Spirit AeroSystems...
Apr 16 2012 // Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April...
Mar 29 2012 // The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas has resumed producing electricity.Kansas Public Radio reports the plant was brought back on line Tuesday following a shutdown of about two months. Problems at the plant...
Mar 15 2012 // When weather radios start sounding warnings in the Wichita, Kan., area this spring, the computerized voice nicknamed Chance Storms won’t just alert listeners to severe thunderstorms or tornado warnings. He’ll...
Mar 15 2012 // Laura Corogenes has joined ThinkRisk, a subsidiary of Ryan Specialty Group, as senior vice president and branch manager of ThinkRisk’s Kansas City, Mo., office. Previously a director of underwriting for another firm,...
Mar 9 2012 // The only thing more amazing than seeing a row of space-agey buildings rising from western Kansas plains is the fact that there’s anything there at all.It’s been nearly five years since an F5 tornado obliterated...
Mar 8 2012 // A former Pittsburg, Kan., insurance agent will have to pay back more than $137,000 to victims of forgery and theft following a Kansas Insurance Department (KID)-led investigation involving non-payment of clients’...
Mar 5 2012 // Client Prep Needed“It’s hard to ask for rate hikes if you’ve never had to do it.” —Michael Sapnar, president and CEO of Transatlantic Holdings. Speaking at a Professional Liability Underwriting...
Mar 2 2012 // A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes and lashed the Midwest early Wednesday roughed up the entertainment resort town of Branson and laid waste to small towns in Illinois and Kansas. At least...
Mar 1 2012 // A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes lashed the Midwest early Wednesday, roughing up the country music resort city of Branson and laying waste to a small town in Kansas. At least four people...
Feb 23 2012 // The number of people killed in train-related accidents in Kansas has remained steady in the past 20 years although there has been a dramatic decrease in such fatalities nationwide, according to federal statistics.About 16...
Feb 13 2012 // Kansas legislators are modifying a proposal from Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration to establish a fund to cover the state’s share of federally declared disasters.Brownback wants to use $12 million...
Jan 31 2012 // Facing pressure from large dairies and feedlots desperate for workers, Kansas Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman is seeking a federal waiver that would allow companies to hire illegal immigrants.Rodman has met several times...
Jan 27 2012 // Kansas farmers have claimed nearly $1 billion in insurance to offset crop losses caused by the lingering drought.The federal government says that breaks a Kansas record of $446.8 million for drought claims set in 2002, and...
Jan 18 2012 // Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing that Kansas create a special fund to help cover the costs of recovering from natural disasters. The measure is part of the budget Brownback has outlined for the fiscal year beginning July 1,...