Silver Lake News

For the first time in 35 years, a familiar face will be gone - a dedicated police officer who has relied more on his people skills than his badge to keep order in the midtown school.

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This week, July soybeans shot up 45 cents , reaching $14.47 per bushel on Friday morning.

Mixed emotions ruled the day for Washburn University nursing degree graduates on Saturday afternoon as they waited in a hallway at Lee Arena for their ceremony to begin.

The result was Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates, a Wichita-based company that has received national acclaim and now has more than 40 employees.

When a new teacher begins the year at Silver Lake, he or she might want to thank Jaime Manhart's video production class.

Wheat futures fell for the second time in three days on speculation that crop damage in the U.S. Great Plains was less than expected following an April freeze and the 2012 drought.

With just one year under its belt, the merged Topeka and Shawnee County parks and recreation department has been deemed a success story by the county commission.

Three different fire departments from around the area combined forces to put out a blaze that broke out at a home in Northern Shawnee County early Tuesday morning.

The U.S. News and World Report's latest rankings of the nation's high schools list Silver Lake Junior and Senior High as one of the best schools in Kansas.

Nearly all of the approximate 250 people who took part in Saturday morning's NAMI Walk at Gage Park had a personal story of someone who was affected by depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety attacks or other forms of mental illness.

Jacob Gentry, right, of Rossville, cares for pigs as he talks about them to Topeka second-graders Tuesday morning at the Kansas Expocentre's Domer Arena.