
Natalie Wallington
Service Desk Reporter at Kansas City Star
Reporter + data nerd @KCStar 🔎 union steward ✊ policy, labor, sustainability, utilities 📝 [email protected] or DM for Signal 📬 she/her 🏳️🌈
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2 months ago |
kansascity.com | Natalie Wallington
Missouri utility regulators removed a requirement for utility companies to report where they perform their shutoffs by ZIP code in a rule passed in late 2023. Illustration by Neil Nakahodo A Missouri official tasked with regulating the state's private utility companies quietly tipped the scales against making utility shutoffs more transparent in 2023.
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2 months ago |
kansascity.com | Natalie Wallington |Eleanor Nash
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory, issued Thursday, recommends that health care providers perform a second test for bird flu within 24 hours of hospital admission for any patient suspected of having seasonal or H5N1 avian influenza. Adobe stock/HealthDay upi The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services paused most external communications Tuesday, Jan. 21, following the inauguration of President Donald Trump for his second term.
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2 months ago |
kansascity.com | Natalie Wallington
Rows of headstones are seen at Highland Cemetery along Blue Ridge Boulevard in Jackson County on Thursday, Jan. 23. Highland has been owned since 2010 by the Jackson County Land Trust, which tries to maintain the grounds and keep them open to the public. Just east of Kansas City limits in Blue Summit, a chain-link fence along Blue Ridge Boulevard seals the entrance to a hilly plot of gravestone-dotted land.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
kansascity.com | Natalie Wallington
Trash and recycling pickups in some municipalities around the Kansas City metro area were delayed again Wednesday, Jan. 8, as crews continue to clear snow and ice from the roads. Kansas City and Kansas City, Kansas, are among the cities where collection remained on hold Wednesday. Both cities had previously canceled pickup Monday and Tuesday following the blizzard. Here are the cities where trash and recycling collection is still on hold.
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Jan 5, 2025 |
kansascity.com | Natalie Wallington
Editor's note: Follow live Kansas City blizzard coverage here. The snow that blanketed Kansas City from Saturday into Sunday is expected to end by midnight in most of the metro, a National Weather Service meteorologist said Sunday evening. That's also when the region's Blizzard Warning, the agency's most severe snow-related weather alert, comes to an end. The warning took effect at 3 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, and will lift nearly 24 hours later.
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