Kansas rural business champion retires from K-State
By Pat Melgares, K-State Extension news service MANHATTAN, Kan. – A Kansas man who popularized the phrase ‘Now, That’s Rural’ while advocating for co...
Oct 28, 2026Open source
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Manhattan, Kansas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Riley. Associated ZIP codes: 66502, 66503, 66505, 66506.
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Now is the time to plant spring-flowering bulbs
K-STATE EXTENSION NEWS SERVICE MANHATTAN — Planning ahead this fall can result in a colorful spring landscape of tulips, daffodils, crocus and more, Kansas...
Sep 30, 2026Open source
K-State to host field day to address beef industry changes
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University will welcome producers, veterinarians and beef industry leaders to a field day on Thursday, Sept. 24, focused on giving...
Sep 4, 2026Open source
K-State annual western Kansas field days to be next week
MANHATTAN — For more than a century, Kansas State University research fields across western Kansas have weathered drought, hail, shifting markets, new tech...
Aug 20, 2026Open source
Scouting soybean fields now can prevent costly insect damage, K-State expert saysBean leaf beetles, podworm...
MANHATTAN -- Kansas soybean growers should be paying close attention to their fields over the next several weeks as bean leaf beetles and soybean podworms be...
Aug 18, 2026Open source
K State Program Seeks Entrepreneurs
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University’s College of Business Administration is now accepting applications for the fall 2026 Accelerator program, a premier o...
Aug 17, 2026Open source
Gov. Kelly proclaims August as Kansas Farmers Market month
MANHATTAN — In recognition of the important role farmers’ markets play in Kansas communities, Gov. Laura Kelly has proclaimed August as Kansas Farmers Ma...
Aug 13, 2026Open source
Protecting sweet corn from raccoons
K-State Extension news service MANHATTAN, Kan. — Raccoon populations in Kansas and the Great Plains have been increasing over the last 40 years, and as…...
Aug 10, 2026Open source
Agricultural dust poses hidden health risks for farmersExpert warns of flu-like illness, chronic lung disea...
By Pat MelgaresK-State Extension news service MANHATTAN, Kan. — Dust is an unavoidable part of farming, but a Kansas State University expert says what’s...
Aug 6, 2026Open source
The heat is on: Staying safe in the hot Kansas summer
K-State Extension news service With heat and humidity on the rise in Kansas, here’s what you can do to keep yourself and others safe MANHATTAN,… Login to...
Jul 28, 2026Open source
Kansas woman accused of attempted murder of boy
RILEY COUNTY. – A Manhattan woman is under investigation on serious allegations. Just before 4p.m. Saturday, police filed a
Jul 14, 2026Open source
KFB’s VOTE FBF announces Kansas Senate, House endorsements
MANHATTAN — Kansas Farm Bureau’s (KFB) Voters Organized To Elect Farm Bureau Friends (VOTE FBF) political action committee announces its endorsements for...
Jul 7, 2026Open source
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NBC Hypes El-Sayed Overcoming 'Personal Attacks,' Claims Hamilton Is 'A Moderate'
The morning after Democrats gained control of Congress, NBC’s Wednesday edition of Today was especially excited over two Senate races in particular. Meet t...
Nov 5, 2026Open source
Republicans bet on big government policies — and lost | Column
. Pastor Adam Hamilton won the U.S. Senate race in Kansas, becoming the first Democrat from his state to win a Senate seat since 1932. [ EMILY CURIEL |...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Morning drizzle gives way to a cloudy, breezy Wednesday in Kirksville
Kirksville and Adair County will start Wednesday with leftover drizzle, then settle into a cloudy, breezy day, according to the National Weather Service in K...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Manhattan is in Riley County, Kansas.
Region: Kansas
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66502, 66503, 66505, 66506
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NBC Hypes El-Sayed Overcoming 'Personal Attacks,' Claims Hamilton Is 'A Moderate'
The morning after Democrats gained control of Congress, NBC’s Wednesday edition of Today was especially excited over two Senate races in particular. Meet t...
Nov 5, 2026Open source
Republicans bet on big government policies — and lost | Column
. Pastor Adam Hamilton won the U.S. Senate race in Kansas, becoming the first Democrat from his state to win a Senate seat since 1932. [ EMILY CURIEL |...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Morning drizzle gives way to a cloudy, breezy Wednesday in Kirksville
Kirksville and Adair County will start Wednesday with leftover drizzle, then settle into a cloudy, breezy day, according to the National Weather Service in K...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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From 1780 to 1830 the land around Manhattan was home to the Kaw, or Kansa, whose Blue Earth Village stood near where the river they called the Great Blue Earth, now the Big Blue, meets the Kansas River. A large battle between the Kaw and the Pawnee was fought there in 1812, and the Kaw ceded the land in a treaty signed at the Shawnee Methodist Mission on January 14, 1846.
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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened the territory in 1854, George S. Park founded a settlement called Polistra that fall, and Samuel D. Houston and three others founded Canton nearby, but neither grew beyond its founders. In March 1855 a group of New England Free-Staters sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Company and led by Isaac Goodnow chose the site, and that April they joined Canton and Polistra into one settlement named Boston. In June 1855 the steamer Hartford, carrying 75 settlers of the Cincinnati-Manhattan Company bound for the site of present Junction City, ran aground nearby. Its passengers accepted an invitation to join the town on condition that it be renamed Manhattan, which was done on June 29, 1855. Manhattan was incorporated on May 30, 1857. Manhattan was staunchly Free-State and elected the only two Free-State members of the first territorial legislature, but nearby Fort Riley spared it the worst violence of Bleeding Kansas. On January 30, 1858, it was named seat of Riley County, and on February 9, 1858, Governor James W. Denver chartered a Methodist college there, Blue Mont Central College. Sources Wikipedia: Manhattan, Kansas
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39.1937570, -96.5857760
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