Celia Hack
News ReporterCelia Hack is a general assignment reporter for KMUW. Before KMUW, she worked at The Wichita Beacon covering local government and as a freelancer for The Shawnee Mission Post and the Kansas Leadership Center’s The Journal. She is originally from Westwood, Kansas, but Wichita is her home now.
Celia can be reached by email at celiahack@kmuw.org.
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Several local experts say the root of the housing shortage stems from the years after the 2008 recession, when new home construction tanked. -
The deadline for owner-occupied short-term rentals to register was March 12, but non-owner-occupied units have until September. -
Wichita has half as many roller rinks as it did in 1984. But if you look in the right corners, roller-skating in the city is hanging on — and in some places, it’s making a resurgence. -
The federal government is requiring utilities across the country to take an inventory of public and private water service lines, so it can determine which are made of lead. -
Providers said that there's not enough shelter beds to house the people who are leaving the emergency winter shelter. -
The nonprofits Amy Frey relied on for shelter during her family’s bout of homelessness say they are vastly overwhelmed by the amount of need in Wichita. -
GreenField Robotics started in 2018 and recently received an investment from Chipotle’s $100 million venture capital fund. -
The bill is supported by Sedgwick County and the city of Wichita, but a local advocacy group focused on ending homelessness is concerned about the language around enforcing ordinances about camping and vagrancy. -
The commission had the opportunity to vote on a new set of regulations developed by the Sedgwick County-Wichita Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, but felt more research was necessary to prepare regulations. -
The county commission will vote Wednesday on expanded regulations for large-scale solar farms, as the temporary ban on new solar applications comes to a close.
