Geary County News

There are now 154 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Kansas , after three more cases were verified in Thomas County Wednesday.

Although the item is on the agenda for Thursday night's Junction City/Geary County Metropolitan Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, discussions pertaining to rezoning a portion of the former Junction City Country Club will be ""extremely brief,"" a city official said.

After several years of slight population growth, projections from the U.S. Census Bureau call for Saline County to begin a slow slide as soon as next year.

A couple of Kansas prison inmates with Geary County connections are up for parole hearings in the near future.

A case of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus has been confirmed in a Lyon County adult, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Champions Car Wash and Friends of Animals teamed up this weekend in an effort to find dogs temporarily housed at the Junction City/Geary County shelter good, permanent homes.

A professional researcher who's still seeing a ""great amount of resistance"" during his attempts to attain property appraisal data from all 105 Kansas counties commended Geary County this week for their open records practices.

Two Topeka clinics have received primary care clinic and health center grants from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, KDHE secretary Roderick Bremby announced Tuesday.

BELLEVILLE a ' Republic County has confirmed its first case of swine flu. State health officials say a child has contracted the virus, but offered no other details.

The bank that financed a recently built Junction City apartment complex has filed for foreclosure on that property, saying the developer owes the bank more than $40 million.

Details about how much local government money could flow to the proposed Siemens Wind Power plant in Hutchinson have not fully emerged.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Republic County has confirmed its first case of H1N1 flu.

A wide band of severe thunderstorms was moving across eastern Kansas on Monday night, from south of Wichita to near Beatrice, Neb.

New reports of swine flu continue to appear in Missouri and Kansas.In Missouri, Callaway County health officials have confirmed one case and suspect that another member of the same family also may have the virus.Callaway County Health Administrator Sharon Lynch would not disclose the familys name but said the one case was confirmed Thursday.

Two Labette County residents are recovering at home after being diagnosed with the H1N1 A influenza virus, local and state officials said Saturday.

Two new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Labette County, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Kansas to 100.

In this economic climate, many people are curtailing extravagances and curbing extravagant habits.

Kansas health officials aren't surprised that swine flu has been declared a pandemic.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirms a Butler County adult has swine flu.

More charges still await a suspected local serial rapist who is currently sitting in the Geary County Detention Center on a $1 million bond.