TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Topeka Police Department (TPD) is asking for community input to help shape the department’s first-ever community policing policy. The TPD opened the survey up to the public on Monday, March 17. The survey asks questions like ‘what does community policing mean to you?’ and ‘what do you think the biggest challenges…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The owners of a new American Kolache restaurant are inviting locals to swing by their location in west Topeka. 27 News checked in with Russell Clark, owner of the American Kolache franchise, this week about the new location in Topeka at 5938 Southwest 17th Street. He said the business is officially open…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A new Topeka restaurant specializing in tasty sandwiches reports it will be opening later this month. 27 News checked back in with the owners of Over the Top Sandwich & Deli, Troy and Marcy Schreiner, this week to find out if the business has an opening date set yet for March. Troy…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A local butcher shop is expanding its operations in Topeka. Leonard Meat is opening a new location at 1936 Southwest Gage Boulevard suite B. The owner tells 27 News it’s important for small businesses to stick together, which is why they sell locally made Kansas products in the store. Leonard Meat has…… MORE
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – The Manhattan Regional Airport (MHK) announced that larger airplanes will soon be landing in the Little Apple. The MHK announced in a press release on Monday, March 17 that American Airlines will bring larger 65-seat airplanes for daily flights to and from Chicago. MHK said the flights will start in April. MHK…… MORE
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – K-State is now shutting down federally funded research programs after the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) issued stop-work orders earlier this year. K-State has paused Feed the Future Innovation Labs. The project uses funding to research crop resilience and improve global food systems. Evacuations ordered in Wabaunsee County due to fire…… MORE
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – K-State announced that it had suspended two of its Feed the Future Innovation Labs and other international grant projects. According to K-State, stop-work orders for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USDAID) and the U.S. Department of Foreign Agricultural Service were issued in late January. Those orders halted various grant-funded research projects…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Women are breaking down barriers in firefighting and proving that saving lives has no gender. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that only 9% of women are firefighters across the country. Five out of 244 firefighters at the Topeka Fire Department (TFD) are women. The four first women with the TFD…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – One person is injured after a shooting in Topeka Sunday morning. According to a press release from the Topeka Police Department, at approximately 11:26 a.m., officers responded to the 3100 block of southeast Emerson Street on a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found a woman suffering from multiple gunshot…… MORE
SILVER LAKE (KSNT) – The victim in a Saturday, March 15, deadly crash near Silver Lake has been identified as Christopher A. Frye, 19, of Silver Lake. According to a Facebook post from the Silver Lake School District, Frye was a senior at Silver Lake High School. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies…… MORE
