Riley Sipes was a junior at Wichita’s North High School last spring when the COVID-19 shutdown closed schools and canceled prom and other activities....

A grand jury subpoena served in Overland Park in November demanded reams of documents and videos connected to the killing of 17-year-old John Albers who was shot by one of the city's police officers in 2018.

The remains of Father Emil Kapaun, lost for nearly 70 years, will return to Kansas.

Johnson County Commissioner Charlotte O’Hara alleges she was unlawfully prevented from attending a hearing about the district’s mask policy earlier this week because she was not wearing a mask.

Wichita State University could have a new president within the next few months. A search committee charged with finding WSU’s next leader interviewed...

A pesar de que mucho del país se anima a la posibilidad de vacunarse, grupos considerables quedan sin convencerse aún. En las comunidades de migrantes y refugiados en el suroeste de Kansas, las barreras culturales y el acceso a la vacuna podrían dejar abandonados a los más vulnerables.

WICHITA, Kansas — Utility companies in Kansas will soon have a new accounting tool that could speed the closure of coal-fired power plants — and save...

Last spring, Wichita families clamoring for online learning options quickly snapped up 500 spots at Education Imagine Academy, a K-12 virtual school...

Amtrak plans to restart daily passenger service on its Southwest Chief route across Kansas beginning May 31. In October, Amtrak cut the line’s daily...

Gov. Laura Kelly suffered a quick defeat in her latest effort to impose orders aimed at curbing the COVID-19 pandemic.

The casual attitude toward the dangers of COVID worries health care leaders in Fort Scott, Kansas.

Samantha Mungai, an immigrant from Kenya, left her child alone while she went to work in July of 2017. This is the story of what participants in this case, and those who work in the system, say that parents who are Black, low income, or immigrants can face as they try to be reunited with their kids.

Hattie McDaniel made history as the first Black actor to win an Academy Award, for her role as Mammy in “Gone with the Wind.” Now, visitors passing her...

This story has been updated to include the April 1 vote of no-confidence against Graham. Faculty at Haskell Indian Nations University have formally...

For many middle- and high-school students in Wichita, Monday was the first day back on campus since the pandemic shutdown last year — and another step...

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., a self-avowed anti-Semite, testified that he drove to Overland Park from his Aurora, Missouri, home looking to murder Jews. None of his victims turned out to be Jewish.

LIBERAL, Kansas — One woman thinks the COVID-19 pandemic was planned, man-made. A man won’t get inoculated because he suspects other countries are using...

KU doctors urged the public to recognize the proven safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

Sedgwick County has ended its mask mandate and other safety protocols intended to fight the spread of COVID-19.

WICHITA, Kansas — Wind now cranks up more kilowatts than any other power source in the state. Yet even as towering turbines and their slow-churning...

Only specially certified doctors could recommend cannabis, and only to their long-term patients.

While the pandemic will be remembered as a major public health crisis, it was a significant mental health emergency as well.