WICHITA — About a half-dozen Wichita public schools will close for good at the end of the school year, as the district deals with declining enrollment and a massive budget shortfall. Wichita Superintendent Kelly Bielefeld…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a 22-year-old woman who died in an apartment fire in Wichita after mistakes by the 911 dispatch center believes the center has “systemic issues,” and the local firefighters…

Political newcomer Lily Wu has ousted current Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple and will become the city’s first Asian-American mayor. Unofficial results show Wu received 58% of the vote over Whipple’s 42%. In her victory speech,…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A demonstration planned by a Roman Catholic diocese in Kansas that would have blocked the only entrance to a Wichita abortion clinic on Saturday was canceled after a judge put a…

WICHITA — The Humboldt High cross country team’s season came to an end at Saturday’s Class 3A regional meet. The Humboldt girls team earned a fifth place finish with an average time of 25:27 while…

The Iola Municipal Band will be featured on an episode of “Positively Kansas” at 8 p.m. Friday on Wichita’s PBS Station, KPTS Channel 8. Chris Frank, a senior producer for PBS, was in Iola over…

There’s a mayoral election taking place in Wichita, Kansas’s largest stand-alone city, right now. Also, strikes have been declared at Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita’s largest single employer, and Ascension Via Christi, the city’s largest hospital. What…

CHANUTE — Bike Across Kansas arrived in Chanute Thursday afternoon for the third day of its annual trek. The riders were to have arrived in Garnett Friday afternoon before reaching their final destination of Pleasanton…

TOPEKA — Republican legislators on the State Finance Council pushing Thursday to settle a lawsuit filed by owner of a Wichita fitness gym temporarily closed in early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic were thwarted by…

Hi Wichita. Feel like paying property taxes so Wichita’s millionaire Steven brothers don’t have to?  If you’re like me, that’s probably a hard no.  But it’s what the Kansas House of Representatives passed in the…