Westar Energy News

Topekan Sonny Scroggins will assume the role of Civil War soldier James Whitfield Ross at noon today outside the offices of Westar Energy, 818 S. Kansas Ave.

Kansas regulators have scheduled hearings on a proposal from Westar Energy Inc. for a 15 percent increase in electric rates.

A Shawnee County judge has ordered Westar Energy Inc. to pay former Chief Executive Officer David Wittig $1.67 million for legal fees generated during his ongoing criminal case.

Westar Energy reported 357 customers in North Topeka were without power Friday night.

The Girard City Council on Monday authorized City Attorney Richard Loffswold to fire the latest shot in its ongoing battle with Westar Energy over what the city calls unfair utility billing overcharges.

They're looking to utilities and other companies to build new transmission lines, and a fight has started in Kansas for the right to build _ and profit from _ the first stretches of a regional, high-voltage ...

State regulators must decide who gets to build and profit from new, high-voltage electric lines linking Wichita to southwest Kansas.

I concur with Ford Ross' June 24 letter regarding the wind farm near Ellsworth. Another report indicates that Westar Energy, bowing to the demands of the environmental lobby, is investing in another huge wind ...

Westar officials claim rights to the entire project are theirs. But ITC says Westar is limited to only part of the project.

The American Red Cross is aiming to help people beat the heat and today was a great day to take advantage of its "Operation Heat Relief" program.

Westar Energy, Inc. will break ground Tuesday on a new wind farm project in Barber County, south of Wichita.

Two years of prison is a reasonable sentence in the bank fraud conviction of former Westar Energy Inc.

Utility crews were working throughout Wednesday night and through the day Thursday to restore electrical power to customers left in darkness by the powerful storms that raked the area.

A federal appeals court has upheld a 24-month prison sentence for a former Westar Energy Inc.

About 1,000 Westar Energy customers in southwest Topeka - including businesses along the Wanamaker corridor - lost power for more than two hours Sunday evening when a thunderstorm rolled through the city.

A little laughter was mixed in with some exercise Friday morning. It was part of the Capital City Wellness Program.

Recent news that Westar Energy had filed for a 15 percent rate hike elicited predictable outrage from consumers.

A line of severe storms marched across Kansas Thursday afternoon and evening. In the Northeastern part of the state, power outages and downed tree limbs accounted for most of the damage.

The lights are back on for dozens of Westar Energy customers in Bonner Springs. Their power went out for about 90 minutes Wednesday night when a snake got into a line that fed into a substation, Westar ...

Published Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:21 p.m. CDT A cement truck driver was trapped briefly inside his vehicle Thursday morning after it downed a power pole just east of downtown.