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National Work Zone Awareness Week: Go Orange!

News Staff
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
The Kansas Department Transportation and its safety partners are going orange during National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 20-24, to help raise awareness and reduce crashes in work zones.Safety is important for both the highway workers and motorists.
Blasphemy or Trump being Trump?

Blasphemy or Trump being Trump?

Blasphemy or Trump being Trump?

News Staff
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Sunday, April 12, on his social media platform, “Truth Social,” Donald J Trump posted or “re-truthed” the image below, which was created by artificial intelligence. The graphic portrays Trump as a divine Christ-like figure, with light coming from his hands, healing a wounded man in the foreground.
Junior High classmates hold Jack Ricke above the crowd to enhance his chances of winning tickets to the game in Tribune and a Harlem Wizards jersey.

Junior High classmates hold Jack Ricke above the crowd to enhance his chances of winning tickets to the game in Tribune and a Harlem Wizards jersey.

Home of the WCJSHS Braves and Indians

With Superintendent Lori Maxwell
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
On Monday, April 13th, USD 467 students attended a 30-minute inspirational presentation by Jonathan “Top Flight” Hevalow, a member of the All-Star Unit of the Harlem Wizards, who was in western Kansas with his teammates to play a basketball game in Greeley County.

Graduation Edition Information

News Staff
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
As you may have noticed, the regular weekly issues of The Wichita County Native Sun in this format run either 12 or 16 pages (multiples of 4).Because our Graduation Edition will be 28 pages, it will be a stand alone $150 Special Issue.
Five groundwater management districts address water resource issues in parts of western and central Kansas that source water from the High Plains aquifer.

Five groundwater management districts address water resource issues in parts of western and central Kansas that source water from the High Plains aquifer.

Groundwater levels in the Kansas High Plains aquifer see first overall increase since 2019

Sunday Siomades Kansas Geological Survey
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
LAWRENCE — Preliminary measurements by the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) show an overall increase in 2025 groundwater levels across Kansas High Plains aquifer regions, due in part to periods of above-average rainfall. In south-central Kansas, water levels increased an average of nearly 2.
City Center

City Center

City Center

News Staff
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
•Regarding Water Usage, Outdoor watering, including, but not limited to, the irrigation with water of lawns, shrubs, flowers, trees, gardens and other outdoor vegetation...
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