Jaime Green The Wichita Eagle The three or four miles north of the Sedgwick County Zoo, along North Hoover Road, has long been an oddity on the Wichita map – a region of sand pits, landfills and ...

Sedgwick County officials are urging residents, business owners and farmers affected by recent flooding to report their ...

Douglas County commissioners have approved a sand pit mining operation near Eudora along the Kansas River, despite objections from landowners and city officials. The commission voted Wednesday to ...

The Douglas County Commission has given tentative approval to a plan for a large sand pit mining operation along the Kansas River, but has required that a survey be conducted first to determine ...

Douglas County ... for a new sand pit mining operation.The application is from William Penny, owner of Penny's Concrete, which has a dredging operation next to the site on the Kansas River ...