In its ninth year, Recovery Idol took the stage at Century II late last month. The event gives people in recovery a safe space to perform away from drugs and alcohol.
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- The wage Kansans must earn to afford a two-bedroom apartment is cheap compared to other states. But experts say it's still too high for many.
- A bill in the Kansas House aims to help small start up businesses get off the ground. It would create a new administrative office focused on improving state business policy and programs.
- Child advocates are continuing to ask why police or child welfare officials did not remove a 5-year-old Topeka girl from her surroundings before she was killed.
- About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland in Kansas and the Great Plains sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer. But water levels are dropping. We look at how states are managing water use.
- Drought continues to affect some of the world’s most important wetlands in central Kansas.
- The Wichita City Council is expected to approve funding for a study about possible upgrades to Eisenhower National Airport.
- The deadline to register to vote for the November election is tomorrow.
Producers: Beth Golay and Lu Anne Stephens
Editors: Beth Golay and Tom Shine
Contributors: Jennifer Anima, Kylie Cameron, Celia Hack, Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Dylan Lysen, Tom Shine and Graycen Wheeler
Theme music: Torin Andersen
Digital editor: Karlee Cooper
