Regional News
According to the New York Times’ latest report of U.S. cases, Kansas represents the U.S. state with the most new cases per 100,000 recorded Tuesday. The table is sorted by states with the most cases over the last seven days.…
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In what’s shaping up as one of the biggest land-development projects in the region’s history, the city of DeSoto has advanced a $1 billion-dollar proposal that would cover nearly 10 square miles of western Johnson County with industrial space, residential…
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The Kansas health department will be ending it’s COVID-19 contact tracing program at the, effective Feb. 1. According to the department, the decision was made due to an influx in cases and in the hopes of reducing the strain on…
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Is Omicron on the way out? It may be too soon to celebrate the end of this latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the rolling seven-day daily average case count in the U.S. peaked within the past week, at…
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The Kansas House has approved a bill allowing the continuation of a temporary waiver on some healthcare licensure requirements, a help to healthcare facilities facing staffing shortages. The bill goes before the Senate for a vote on Thursday, Jan. 20.…
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A new program from the U.S. Department of Transportation will soon deliver the first payout of a five-year $484 million investment to rebuild bridges across the state. In the first year of the program, Missouri will receive $96.9 million. Funding arrives…
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A notice of intent from Canadian National (CN) is asking regulators to require Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) to divest the Springfield Line as a condition of their merge. The divestment would allow Canadian National to take…
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The value of non-irrigated land increased by 14 percent in the Show-Me state from 2020. The rise extended beyond cropland, values likewise bumping up for pasture, timberland, and hunting/ recreational land. According to the latest Missouri Farmland Values Opinion Survey…
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Economic activity for the Kansas City district closed out the year displaying growth at a moderate pace, according to the latest Beige Book report, released on Jan. 12 by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Representing the…
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The 2021 recap for M&A activity in the U.S. consumer sector tallied more than 2,800 transactions, Bridgepoint Investment Banking says in a new report released today. Companies focused on consumer services accounted for the lion’s share of transactions—1,025—followed by consumer…
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