TOPEKA (KSNT) – Astronomers are monitoring a large dark spot on the sun’s surface which could impact Earth in the days ahead. 27 News spoke with Brenda Culbertson this week, a solar system ambassador with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), about a massive sunspot, dubbed 4079, and what it…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – It’s a special day for the St. Jude Dream home team as volunteers of all ages came together Saturday morning to plant the landscaping for this year’s house. In just under two hours the outside of the home was completely transformed on May 3. Volunteers from Drippé homes, Alpha Media, the Topeka…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – An art museum in the Capital City is back and better than ever after flooding and a snowstorm knocked it out of commission earlier this year. Last winter an HVAC leak flooded the Rita Blitt Gallery at Washburn’s Mulvane Art Museum. The entire floor had to be torn up and replaced. Nearly…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – People hit the streets of Topeka for the 6th annual Half Marathon and 5K. The Top City Half Marathon takes runners on quite a unique route, sending them around the capital over to the Brown V Board of Education building and into the Collins Park neighborhood before finishing back at Evergy Plaza.…… MORE
BROWN COUNTY (KSNT) – State troopers report a couple from Sabetha are dead following a motorcycle crash Friday night. The Kansas Highway patrol (KHP) reports the crash occurred just after 5 p.m. on May 2 half a mile east of where Highway 36 intersects with Goldfinch Road in Brown County. A Harley-Davidson motorcycle was traveling…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Flags across Kansas are being lowered to half-staff on Sunday. But what’s the occasion? Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued an order last week that flags throughout the State of Kansas be lowered to half-staff from sunup to sundown on Sunday, May 4. This order is meant to honor National Fallen Firefighters Memorial…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A local animal sanctuary is asking for help this week as it takes care of animals rescued from a Topeka cockfighting ring. Shy 38 Inc. Kansas Farm Sanctuary, based out of Lawrence, took to social media on Friday, May 2 to ask for help in taking care of an assortment of roosters,…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Police have released the name of Topeka’s most recent homicide case Saturday and made one arrest. The Topeka Police Department (TPD) announced in a press release that officers were called shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2 to the area of Southwest 13th Street and Southwest Boswell Avenue on reports of…… MORE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Construction is set to start within the next month on the first Buc-ee’s convenience store and gas station in Kansas. Economic Development Director with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, Chelsee Chism, confirmed with FOX4 on Friday that construction is scheduled to commence on or before June…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Police have released the name of Topeka’s most recent homicide case Saturday. The Topeka Police Department (TPD) announced in a press release that officers were called shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2 to the area of Southwest 13th Street and Southwest Boswell Avenue on reports of gunshots. Officers arriving in…… MORE
