Protection News

Author Truman Capote stands in the living room of the Clutter ranch house where four members of the Kansas family were murdered in 1959.

Victorian schools in the potential path of a new wave of bushfires have been left off an emergency register designed to shut them down in the event of another Black Saturday.

AS MANY as 18 of the 52 Victorian towns listed by the State Government as most at risk of bushfire could be without a designated place of last resort for people trying to escape fires this summer.

Bill Brown knew to wait for Nancy and Kenyon Clutter. They never missed Sunday school.

Treece resident Holly Bruner and her 2-year-old son Trenton participated in a town meeting with a delegation from the EPA on a tour of Treece.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is pleased to announce the recipients of a grant competition to support voluntary clean diesel projects across the state.

NORTHERN Grampians Shire Council and emergency services have named neighbourhood safe places for bushfire risk towns Halls Gap and St Arnaud.

Cheerleaders from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University are teaming up for the first time in recent history to host a cheer clinic in southwest Kansas for girls in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Employees of WDC Exploration & Wells bagged a soil sample as they drilled a water collection well Monday at Cedar and Blake streets next to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Remediation Design Plan for the former Chemical Commodities Inc.

Nationwide, 412 children ages 14 and under died in 2006 due to unintentional fire- and burn-related injuries, and approximately 98,700 more were injured.

Griswold - Residents, neighbors and others with gripes, concerns and ideas about the former Triangle Plastic Wire & Cable plant will have a forum to be heard on Monday night.

In 2008, the city partnered with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the North Central Kansas Rural Development Council to apply for an EPA Coalition Assessment Grant, but no grant was awarded.

A possible buyout of residents in a former southeast Kansas mining town has moved one step forward in Washington.

A US Customs and Border Protection officer is seen from Mexico's side of the San Ysidro port of entry guarding vehicles involved in a shooting in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept.

Q. A coworker of mine booked a flight on Orbitz to travel from Tampa to Budapest.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood gestures while speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, Sept.

Ride Into History performer Joyce Thierer will represent ESU at the State Fair today and then goes to Mead, Dodge City and Protection to lead KHC book talks, a oeDancing at the Rascal Fair,a over the weekend.

A Houston couple has pleaded guilty in an alleged plot to defraud the U.S. while working as contractors on rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan.

If you've had a gripe in the past year about debt collectors, auto dealers, home repair and construction contractors, credit card companies or Web sales, you've got a lot of company.

The long-criticized practice of searching travelers' electronic devices will continue, but a supervisor now would need to approve holding a device for more than five days.