Spearville News

In droves, people in suits, jeans and cowboy hats dropped by the Plainville Elementary School cafeteria Monday evening, ready to stare at a series of maps with green, orange and red lines drawn through them.

Kansas City Power & Light said it wants to add up to 300 megawatts of wind-generated electricity over the next two years.

A tractor prepares a field under wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Energy Facility near Spearville, Kan.

Next month's climate summit in Copenhagen seeks to transform the way we run the planet, from the generation of energy, to the building of homes and cities, to the shaping of the landscape.

Student leaders at Kansas State University's Salina campus have reversed an earlier decision not to fund a transgendered speaker.

A proposed ultra high-voltage power line in southern Kansas is back on the drawing board after a regional planning body decided Tuesday to keep it a priority.

A proposed ultra high-voltage power line in southern Kansas is back on the drawing board after a regional planning body decided Tuesday to keep it a priority.

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A new poll says most Americans support the way President Barack Obama is dealing with energy issues, including his plan to limit greenhouse gases with a controversial cap-and-trade approach.A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Friday finds that while support is slipping for the president's heath-care proposals, support for his changes in ...

Ethel Mae Foley, 74, former publisher of The Landmark and other weekly newspapers, died Wednesday, August 12 at the Wathena Healthcare and Rehab Center in Wathena, Ks.

The Kansas Corporation Commission ruled Friday that two Kansas companies can move forward with plans to construct a 180-mile transmission line.

The Kansas Corporation Commission has approved an agreement between two electric transmission companies wanting to build a high-power transmission line from Spearville to Wichita.

JIM AND SUSIE Aber have taken photographs all over the state. And I do mean over.

The Kansas Corporation Commission has approved a path for a high-voltage transmission line through six southwest Kansas counties.

Special to The Hays Daily News Topeka a ' The Kansas Corporation Commission today approved ITC Great Plains' application for a permit to construct a 345 kV transmission line extending 89 miles between Spearville and Hays.

Wednesday's hearing on the construction of a 345,000-volt power line from Spearville to Hays turned out to be the Reader's Digest version of a similar hearing in mid-March. The hearing, conducted Wednesday in the La Crosse City Auditorium, was the second of its kind -- requested because the developer of the line, ITC Great Plains, determined it had ...

It will be a case of deja vu, in the form of yet another public hearing, for the construction of a 345,000-volt power line extending from Spearville to Hays.

It's refreshing to have a governor in the Statehouse who not only understands Kansas' tremendous energy-production potential but is determined to make it flourish.

A small group of Kansans who didn't get a required notice about plans to build a transmission line will get a chance to voice their views to state regulators.

Wetzel-Slaven Wed Stephanie E. Wetzel and Merrill T. Slaven are pleased to announced their marriage.