Burlingame News

This weekend there will be some fun festivals, conventions, and rodeos to attend in the Kansas City area.A So if you want to get out of the houseA or need to add some excitement to your weekend, check out one of these fun-family events.

Lots of saddle clubs and rodeos have come and gone. But for more than four decades, the Burlingame Saddle Club has been going strong.

All lanes of eastbound and westbound US-56 highway between K-31 and K-99 highways west of Osage City will be closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday so crews can remove from a ditch a semi trailer and the wind turbine tower it was hauling, the Kansas Department of Transportation said Tuesday morning.

The Kansas Department of Insurance contributed $1,402 to help with relief efforts in Harveyville, which was hit by a tornado Feb.

The tornado damage in Harveyville left many people without homes, clothing, and toiletries and the Topeka Thunder football team wants to help get them back on their feet.