Madison Bickley

4 days ago | wibw.com | Madison Bickley

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Tuesday for new affordable housing units coming to Topeka, providing affordable, desirable, and convenient housing. The Annex Group, Topeka Mayor Mike Padilla, other city officials, and community members were in attendance, gathered for the groundbreaking of Union at Tower District. The roughly $60 million community will include two four-story buildings, sitting on more than four acres and offering 250 affordable housing units.

5 days ago | wibw.com | Madison Bickley

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Troy and Lacey Hartman felt called by God nearly 10 years ago to pack up their lives in Springfield, Missouri, and start a new church in Manhattan, Kansas. From there, Rock Hills Church was born. “We did a demographic study and found that 65% of the community in 2015 was unclaimed to any faith, and we felt like that’s why God is sending us, because our heart is to connect the unconnected,” said Lacey Hartman.

5 days ago | wibw.com | Madison Bickley

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The barricades went up Monday on the Branner Bridge as crews use the next 110 days to make improvements to the bridge. This closure will impact travel for several events, one of those being Germanfest. Chairperson Marilyn Riddle said this isn’t the first roadblock they’ve run into prior to their event. “A few years ago, River Road was closed, Seward Avenue has been closed during Germanfest, so the third time something’s closed so we’re just used to it,” said Riddle.

1 week ago | wibw.com | Madison Bickley

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) said in a release Friday that the Finney County Sheriff’s Office requested them for an investigation. KBI said preliminary information indicated that around 2:40 p.m. Friday, a Garden City man, who was later identified as 25-year-old Isidro Marino, drove his 2020 Toyota RAV4 off the roadway and struck a 25-year-old woman who was walking in the parking lot of the Law Enforcement Center, located at 304 N.

1 week ago | wibw.com | Madison Bickley

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Emporia is one step closer to having improved public safety, along with enhanced emergency response capabilities, as work continues on what will house the city’s new fire department. Dozens of signatures, symbolic stickers, and the placement of the final steel beam marked the completion of the station’s final structural element. “We’re seeing a lot more space in this new station than what we’re compared to. A lot of the layout is more modernized than what we’re used to.