Last Friday, North America’s SkyPower announced that it would be signing a solar deal with Kenya for a 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatt), $2.2 billion development project.

In the past, the 18-year-old would have to find light elsewhere when his family's off-grid home in the village of Ndela, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of then Kenyan capital, ran out of paraffin.

Alexander Muyekhi, a construction worker from Ebubayi village in the heart of Vihiga County in Western Kenya, and his school-going children can now enjoy a tiny solar kit supplied by the British-ba

Scientists are lobbying for approval to commercialise a genetically modified maize variety.

Driven by zeal and inspiration, a young man in Mathioya, Murang'a county, has come up with an hydropower project that has connected more than 72 homes to power.

Lamu county has approved a Sh20billion wind power project at Baharini area in Mpeketoni.

Kenya has signed a Sh50 billion infrastructure loan with World Bank to fund part of the Eastern Africa Regional Transport, Trade and Development Facilitation Project.

The High Court has struck out a petition that sought an order against the eviction of 50 families in Narok County and challenged the conversion of the land they occupied to a wildlife sanctuary.

A tar-processing plant in Kiambu county has been closed after 200 residents complained it causes air pollution.