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Ten-year-old Chandler Harp found the 2-inch-diameter black rock Saturday after hearing what he thought was an explosion.

This year's NCI Best Practices Report focuses on Sustainable Community Charrettes.

"Going green" is hardly a new concept for members of the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts.

Published online 11/13/2009 7:54 AM Morning blend: News from around Kansas Compiled by Edie Ross - The Hutchinson News - eross@hutchnews.com County delays action again on consolidating elected positions The Great Bend Tribune Barton County Commission members again this declined to take action for or against the suggestion that three elected ...

They lost everything. People living in the Kiowa County town of Greensburg are busy rebuilding homes and businesses, two and half years after a tornado destroyed the town.

In the process of addressing climate change, the United States could net 4.5 million jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency fields by 2030, according to a new study.

For his service as an Army artillery officer who fought his way across Europe during World War II, Capt.

Published online 11/10/2009 10:18 PM The Green Bean coffee shop got its name from three greens: a oeGreensburg,a the town rebuilding environmentally a oegreena and the color of coffee beans before they are roasted.

Ms. Stroer earned national acclaim for her efforts in Greensburg, Ks. to rebuild into a "green" community after an EF5 tornado devestated the town in 2007.

After a vicious tornado swept through Greensburg, Kansas, city administrator Steve Hewitt emerged from his basement to find nearly every structure in his town of 1,500 people flattened by the storm.

The high design? That has nothing to do with reality. Thata s just architectural self-indulgence.a The greening of architecture is quite a contentious subject.

Winning the first design competition they'd ever entered came as a great surprise to the architects of New York City-based Steven Learner Studio .

Earlier this month I visited Greensburg, Kan., and toured a few of its many green buildings.

Yes, he's blond, blue-eyed handsome and yes, he's talented. But Academy Award-winning Leonardo DiCaprio continually proves he is more than just a pretty face jumping on the celebrity hybrid bandwagon.

Schools in Kiowa County have been closed this week due to illness. Classes at Delmer Day Elementary and Kiowa County Junior High will be dismissed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The Next US ), a yearlong mobile film project aimed at recording stories of economic reinvention in America, is finding and profiling people around the country who are helping forge the next U.S. economy.

Hey, great news a ' the Planet Green channel will produce a third season of its docuseries "Greensburg," to begin airing in May 2010, which will be the third anniversary of the powerful EF-5 tornado that destroyed nearly every building in the Kansas town of 1,300. I've been following the progress in Greensburg for some time now.

Illness is shutting down more Kansas classrooms. According to the USD 422 website, school is cancelled until Friday at two schools: Delmar Day Elementary in Greensburg and the junior high school in Mullinville.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the approval of a $17.4 million loan to Greensburg Wind Farm, LLC, to provide financing for the 10 wind turbine project that will supply power to the community of Greensburg, Kan.

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