Wichita’s middle and high school students should brace for at least nine more weeks of virtual learning. On Thursday, the Wichita Public Schools’ Board of Education voted 5-2 to start the school year with remote-only…

Mickey Rutledge loves to teach. After retiring from teaching physical education for 23 years at a school in Shawnee Mission, she wasn’t quite ready to give it up. She moved to her hometown of Iola…

The Lehigh Roots Festival this Friday and Saturday at Iola Elks Lake promises a good time, replete with food vendors, on-site swimming, camping, fishing and boating. Admission is free, thanks to sponsors. Organizer Christina Ramirez…

Katelynn Morgan, a senior at Marmaton Valley High School, has spent the past few weeks helping repaint the interior of Marmaton Market in Moran. On Wednesday, Morgan was putting the finishing touches of an outline…

LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early today, threatening…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials on Wednesday reported the highest seven-day jump in new COVID-19 cases since the state confirmed its first positive case, albeit with a declining death rate. The state Department of…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at an alarming annual rate of 31.7% during the April-June quarter as it struggled under the weight of the viral pandemic, the government estimated today. It was the…

WASHINGTON — Mike Pence emerged from President Donald Trump’s long shadow Wednesday night to accept the nomination for vice president, delivering a revisionist case for their management of the coronavirus pandemic and offering unwavering support…

Tom Maxwell, Allen County agricultural agent, is one of two Kansans who will be honored by the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at Corvallis, Ore. He will receive a distinguished service award at the…

EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — Two men and a 17-year-old male have been charged with murder in the death of a man in Eureka earlier this month, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday. The KBI…