Silver Lake News

The number seemed unreal: $614. For a school district used to its property tax base - or assessed valuation - growing by millions of dollars each year, the figure stuck out to Shirley Martin, assistant to the ...

Question: St. Philip's Episcopal Church at 3860 S.E. California looks like it is abandoned, but that is where we have voted in local elections in past years.

The following animals have been brought to the Helping Hands Humane Society, 2625 N.W. Rochester Road.

I want to express my concern about the Topeka/Shawnee County Riverfront Authority's plans for development.

Hot topic: City manager Norton Bonaparte's proposed 2009 city budget, which he will present to the council early in Tuesday's meeting.

Four floors below Judge Matthew Dowd's courtroom, the mother hardly could believe the words she was reading.

Shawnee County Commissioners will wait 90 days before deciding whether to let the Silver Lake Fire Department build a fire station at N.W. 46th and Landon Road.

The Topeka Golden Giants picked a good time to explode offensively. After losing four out of their last five games and struggling at the plate all season, the Golden Giants came up with a season-high in runs ...

Area residents are walking around the clock to help raise money for cancer research.

The churned soil near Lake Sherwood doesn't hint at the edifice that soon will begin to take shape there.

Sheriff Dick Barta is asking that his office be chosen to run the Shawnee County Emergency Communications Center when current director Bill Singer retires July 31.

Topeka no longer is in a warning after emergency sirens blared in Shawnee County as severe weather passed through.

The Shawnee County Emergency Management Department is investigating three storm sirens that may have failed Wednesday night after a tornado warning was issued for the northwest portion of the county.

Wichita State got home runs from Tyler Weber and Conor Gillaspie and big lifts from Topeka-area standouts Rob Musgrave and Josh Workman in holding off Florida State, 10-7, Friday in the NCAA Super Regionals.

Not to be outdone by NHRA drag racing legend John Force, who won for the 126th time, Auburn's Mark Underhill also notched his own milestone win Sunday at Heartland Park Topeka.

Roy Menninger, former president of the Menninger Foundation, was nostalgic this week upon learning the former Menninger Clinic buildings were being torn down in Topeka.

Question: There was a story in The Topeka Capital-Journal that 200,000 votes were cast by Kansas residents in a competition to pick the state's personalized vehicle license plate.

The man killed in an accident late Saturday night north of Silver Lake is identified as 20-year old Mathhew Runyan of Silver Lake.

Published Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 12:38 p.m. CDT Rain is wreaking havoc on several state high school tournaments throughout the state.

Should Gov. Sebelius have vetoed the Economic Stimulus bill to stop the Coal Plants? No, the Economic Stimulus package was too important Yes, the Coal Plant should not have been included with the Stimulus bill ...