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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

State/Regional

K-State extension to hold youth tractor safety training
03/24/26 Hutch Post
Kansas State University Extension is offering a Youth Tractor Safety Training course in Hutchinson next month, providing young people with required certification to safely work on farms. The training is scheduled for Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pleasantview Activity Center, 5015 S. Dean Road.

A nonprofit grocery store is closing in rural Kansas, showing how hard it is to fight food deserts
03/24/26 KCUR
Rural communities have been turning to nonprofits and other strategies to keep grocery stores open. But one of those new stores is closing in Kansas, which shows how challenging it can be to provide food in small towns.

Tumbleweeds can be so bad in the Great Plains that they bury homes and cause fire danger
03/24/26 KCUR
Today, if you drive across western Kansas on a windy day, you will often see not a lonely tumbleweed, but a swarm of them crossing the highway or congregating along a fence by the road. In western Kansas, it comes with the territory. In fact, ask people in town and they will tell stories with annoyance or amazement of tumbleweeds blocking their driveways or stacked against their homes.