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Layton Bulcao, 83, received his mail-in ballot Thursday for the special election on whether developers of the planned Ambassador Hotel should get to tap into the city’s bed tax to help build the $22.5 million project in downtown Wichita.
TOPEKA – As historic buildings age, they sometimes need a little love and a hefty state subsidy to avoid becoming useless eyesores, advocates of the state’s historic preservation tax credits said Thursday.
How Intrust Bank Arena fared in its second year in downtown Wichita will come to light this morning after projections that it ended the year in the black.
Would you like to know if a neighbor has a permit to work on his house? That answer and others will be made available online starting today as the city of Wichita’s inspection office moves to a new data system that it hopes will make tracking and managing building projects more efficient for everyone.
The Wichita City Council will be asked Tuesday to endorse a traffic study that could eventually lead to the elimination of a bottleneck on Douglas downtown.
Mayor Carl Brewer focused on accomplishments and sacrifices Tuesday night during his State of the City address, rather than dwelling on gloomy news such as Boeing’s impending departure from Wichita.
There’s a new cook in town at the Sedgwick County Jail.
Campaign finance records show that at least two sitting Sedgwick County judges have made contributions to the state’s leading anti-abortion political action committee – after hearing cases involving abortion-related issues.
Wichita City Council members clearly aren’t happy with the first draft of the city’s 10-year, $2.4 billion capital improvements plan, an aggressive project list that would drive the city’s debt load to 91 percent of its capacity in 2019, up from 55 percent this year.
Since the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane opened late last month, traffic on South Hydraulic near the Sedgwick County line has increased roughly 80 percent — from about 1,000 vehicles a day to about 1,800 vehicles a day.
A bill that would give festival promoters the chance to apply for an extra 10-day permit to serve alcohol on public property will probably change to a 30-day permit, Wichita’s lobbyist, Dale Goter, said today.
An associate pastor who has mentored young Republicans plans to run by petition for the District 2 seat on the Sedgwick County Commission.
A proposal to build a three-story apartment complex near 21st and Maize Road has homeowners in the area upset.
Discrepancies in financial estimates have Sedgwick County commissioners asking for clarification about a tax increment financing district recently approved by the city.
Two Sedgwick County commissioners who often vote against spending voted Wednesday to put $48,000 back into next year’s budget to fund the Sedgwick County Extension Center, the Wichita River Festival and the Mediation Center of Wichita.
Wichita voters will get to decide Feb 28 on whether to tap the city bed tax to help finance a boutique hotel downtown.
Members of Genesis Health Clubs will have to pay something, though possibly not full price, to use workout facilities at the Wichita Ice Center if the City Council approves allowing Genesis to put a health club there, the city’s top park official said Monday.
A free-market group says it has completed its petition drive to put the Ambassador Hotel guest tax provision on the ballot for public vote, collecting a little more than 3,500 signatures.
Happy holidays, here’s your tax bill.
Sedgwick County commissioners will vote Wednesday on a two-year contract with firefighters and lieutenants that forgoes cost-of-living increases next year and in 2013.
