The Kansas Senate has approved legislation creating a special fund to help cover the state’s costs after a federal disaster declaration. The bill authorizes the transfer of up to $22 million a year from the state general fund to a …
Kansas legislators have begun work on a bill that would create a special fund to cover the state’s share of disaster assistance. Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the Kansas adjutant general, testified before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee about …
With debris cleanup now in its second week, immediate relief efforts for Kansas tornado victims have been scaled back as disaster help moves into the next stage. The Small Business Administration is taking applications for low-interest federal loans to homeowners, …
Sedgwick County, Kansas, officials say the tornado that hit Oaklawn and southeast Wichita on April 14 caused an estimated $146.3 million in damage. County officials say the tornado damaged or destroyed 776 homes and 86 businesses, and affected another 3,481 …
The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita is closed this week to clean up from damage it sustained during the weekend storms. Museum director Lon Smith estimated the museum suffered between $100,000 and $150,000 in damage. But he says the main …
Tornado damage in Kansas’ aircraft manufacturing hub could have a ripple effect on the industry, analysts have warned, even as airplane makers Boeing and Hawker Beechcraft and nearby parts maker Spirit AeroSystems were still tallying losses. All three companies were …
The television was tuned to forecasters’ dire warnings of an impending storm when Greg Tomlyanobich heard a short burst from a tornado siren blare after midnight on April 15. Then silence. Then rumbling. The 52-year-old quickly grabbed his wife and …
Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April 15 across the nation’s …
The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas has resumed producing electricity. Kansas Public Radio reports the plant was brought back on line Tuesday following a shutdown of about two months. Problems at the plant began Jan. 13 when …
San Diego, Calif.-based managing general agent K2 Insurance Services LLC has acquired a majority stake in Midwestern Insurance Alliance Inc., an MGA based in Louisville, Ky. that underwrites workers’ compensation coverage with a focus on transportation. Terms of the deal …
