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Updated Monday at 2:57 p.m. The Wichita Police Department says an incident that injured three police officers over the weekend was not a planned attack....
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
03/01/21
Plenty of places offer free testing with no health insurance or official ID required. This eliminates the risk of a wrestling match with your insurer later.
Author
Nadya Faulx
Posted on
02/27/21
As the COVID-19 infection rate falls to its lowest in months, Sedgwick County is beginning to ease some health restrictions.
How Kansas City Community Groups Are Getting Coronavirus Information To Latinos And Spanish-Speakers
Author
Luke X. Martin
Posted on
02/25/21
Despite the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on the Latino community, there has been a lack of information and educational resources. Community-led initiatives and nonprofits are working to overcome the myriad challenges.
Spirit AeroSystems has ended what company officials have called a challenging year. The company issued its final 2020 financial report on Tuesday and it...
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
02/22/21
WICHITA, Kansas — Last February, the city of Cheney, Kansas – located just west of Wichita – paid about $2 per thousand cubic feet, or unit, of natural...
Author
Julie Denesha
Posted on
02/20/21
In the turbulent years following the Civil War, around 27,000 former slaves migrated to Kansas. They called themselves "exodusters" and they were fleeing Jim Crow laws. Some of them are remembered in a portrait exhibition of an African-American community in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Wichita has turned out tens of thousands of planes over the years, but nothing the Air Capital of the World produced could match the aura of the Learjet...
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
02/18/21
Kansas launched a program this week to vaccinate school staff and get kids back into classrooms. But meatpacking workers, one of the state's hardest-hit groups, are still waiting to hear when their turn starts.
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
02/17/21
The private nonprofits that run foster care in the state say they've risen to the challenge of caring for children during the pandemic and meeting the terms of a class-action lawsuit settlement. But child welfare advocates say there's plenty of room for improvement.
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
02/15/21
WICHITA, Kansas — Rolling electrical blackouts rippled across the Midwest Monday while the region shivered in an arctic blast and suddenly found itself...
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
02/12/21
On Thursday, three Kansas City-area men were arrested for their alleged roles. Now a Topeka man and his brother in Idaho face similar charges for storming the Capitol.
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
02/11/21
Half of North America's grassland birds have disappeared since 1970. Other species are declining, too. So scientists want to know what you see near you, whether you spot a pigeon or a peregrine falcon.
It’s the end of an era for one of Wichita’s most well-known aviation brands. Production on the Learjet, the first mass-produced business jet, will end...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
02/11/21
County officials say they can't afford to refund property taxes and that property owners weren't always the ones who suffered losses during the pandemic. Some business owners argue the counties owe them a rebate for the damage to their revenues.
Author
Peggy Lowe
Posted on
02/11/21
Three men alleged to be part of the Kansas City Proud Boys were arrested Thursday in what a federal criminal complaint says was a coordinated operation to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
02/11/21
Two bills could reduce prison and probation sentences for many low-level drug crimes, like possession and intent to distribute small amounts.
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
02/09/21
Tracy Kolterman died on Jan. 19 at age 60 after being hospitalized for five weeks. She was a licensed practical nurse at McCrite Plaza, a nursing home in Briarcliff.
Author
Kyle Palmer
Posted on
02/09/21
Prior to succeeding Ed Eilert as mayor in 2005, Gerlach served on the Overland Park City Council for 10 years.
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
02/09/21
Michael Ahlers was the administrator of the med center’s occupational therapy education department from around 2001 to 2015.
Author
Nadya Faulx
Posted on
02/09/21
Wichita North High School will no longer be the Redskins. The school board voted 6-0 Monday night to drop the controversial mascot at the recommendation...
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
02/08/21
KINSLEY, Kansas — In the late 1980s, drought left the wells that supply water to the city of Hays and Russell in western Kansas precariously low. The...