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The KMAN 5-Minute Morning Show: Commission OKs $46K to recruit out-of-state movers + more local news & sports

KROCK Staff — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:18:57 +0000

Riley County backs grant bid to attract new residents

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Caterpillar workers to remain in Wamego

Paul Parker — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:58:47 +0000

By Beth Day

WAMEGO, May 21 — Caterpillar Inc., notified its workforce at the Wamego facility today that Solar Turbines, a Caterpillar subsidiary, will take ownership of the facility, according to a company spokesperson. Solar Turbines will continue manufacturing operations in Wamego and use the existing workforce.

Caterpillar had announced in June, 2024, it was closing the Wamego plant sometime mid-summer of 2025. The facility had been listed for sale for $11.5 million.

According it’s website, Solar Turbines is “A global leader in providing energy solutions that help businesses, governments and public institutions find the perfect balance between affordable, available, and reduced carbon energy.”

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Amazon to build distribution facility in Salina

KROCK Staff — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:57:44 +0000

The Salina Airport Authority announced Thursday that Amazon has purchased 20 acres for a new distribution center.

The property is in Airport Industrial Center Subdivision No. 3, and the company plans a 90,000-plus-square-foot last-mile distribution facility at 1850 W. Water Well Road, officials said.

The new facility, expected to generate at least 100 new jobs, will serve as a critical component of Amazon’s regional logistics network, further strengthening Salina’s role as a major economic hub in Kansas.

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Topeka officials want Manhattan, Lawrence to join its metro area

KROCK Staff — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:21:26 +0000

By Megan Moser

Matt Pivarnik, CEO of the Greater Topeka Partnership, was the final speaker of the day for Friday’s Regional Growth Summit, a day-long conference put on by the Manhattan, Junction City and Wamego chambers of commerce.

He and colleagues discussed combining Topeka and Manhattan — as well as Lawrence and possibly other cities — to form a bigger metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The benefit, they said, is showing a higher population to be able to compete for businesses and economic development projects or programs that might have a higher population cutoff than any of those cities has on its own.

He said he got the idea when he was traveling near Tucscon, Arizona, and drove to Nogales. He wondered what MSA Nogales was in and found that it was in Tucson’s.

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