TOPEKA (KSNT) – Washburn University is having its 10th annual EcoBod Plant Sale to raise money for the EcoBods Club, a student-led club that focuses on sustainability. Students are encouraged to stop by and pick up a plant on campus. Club members use mother-plants from the greenhouse to grow individual succulents for the sale. The…… MORE
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – A new music festival is coming to Manhattan and people are getting excited as Tuttle Creek State Park will once again host thousands of country music fans. “Rocks The Plains” is debuting in Manhattan August 2025. Tuttle Creek State Park was the former site of Country Stampede until it moved in 2019.…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – In FY 2025, the State of Kansas is expected to run a $930 million deficit. That deficit is expected to continue until FY 2029, according to data provided by the Kansas Legislative Research Department (KLRD). Working for you, 27 News reached out to the KLRD to get a preview of the state…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Three people were seriously injured on Tuesday after a multiple-vehicle crash in Shawnee County. At 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday, a 21-year-old man from Wakefield was driving a Chevy Corvette west on I-70 at a high rate of speed. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP), the 21-year-old lost control and ran into…… MORE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dozens of workers in Kansas City, Missouri, will be laid off from a financial services company as part of a planned closure. Broadridge Financial Solutions has informed the state that it plans to cut 72 jobs in its first round of layoffs at its Kansas City site located at 2600 Southwest…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Walmart has announced that it will be remodeling 18 stores in Kansas this year. On Wednesday, Walmart announced that it would be remodeling 650 stores across the USA, including in Kansas. Walmart said that it has invested $264.5 million to upgrade stores in Kansas between 2019 and 2024. “Our stores often serve…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – After an appeal hearing at the Shawnee County courthouse on Tuesday, March 22, Dana Chandler will not be granted a new trial. Chandler, who was found guilty of shooting and killing her ex-husband and his fiancée, appeared in front of a Shawnee County judge on Tuesday in an attempt to be granted…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Team Kitten, a Topeka nonprofit based on rescuing, rehabbing and rehoming cats, shared that a Good Samaritan saved a cage full of kittens that had been left to fend for themselves in a ditch. On Wednesday, Team Kitten shared that a litter of eight kittens and their mom had been left in…… MORE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas holiday train ride company is being ordered to issue refunds to its customers who were left out hundreds of dollars after learning the train would not run in 2023. Douglas County Judge Mark Simpson ordered Snowglobe LLC, a Lawrence entertainment company to pay $7,500 in restitution to consumers after…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – One person is dead after an overnight stabbing in east Topeka. The Topeka Police Department (TPD) responded to a possible stabbing just before 1 a.m. Wednesday at Southeast 2nd and California near Ripley Park. According to a press release, one person was found suffering from a life-threatening injury. They were transported to…… MORE
