Love of Flint Hills unites musicians, concertgoers, volunteers
The wind wasn’t the only thing sweeping across the tallgrass prairie Saturday morning before the seventh annual Symphony in the Flint Hills.
The wind wasn’t the only thing sweeping across the tallgrass prairie Saturday morning before the seventh annual Symphony in the Flint Hills.
After 53 years of marriage, Joyce Ward says Ed is one of those husbands who don’t give presents often.
It was an idea born as a fluke.
As a frontier dentist, O.H. Simpson seldom hesitated to make do with primitive materials.
From the Rockies to the Appalachians, Steve Siebele has hiked and backpacked hundreds of miles through country as rugged as it is beautiful, spending his nights camping beneath the stars.
They were a family strangely out of place among dirt-poor farmers.
Its a wacky world record some Marion County folks are trying to set, but with enough fire, sticks and marshmallows, they think they can do it.
The only thing more amazing than seeing a row of space-agey buildings rising from western Kansas plains is the fact that theres anything there at all.
Nestled in the trees throughout Wichita and Kansas, there is a cacophony of sound particularly when the sun sets and rises.
The 140-year-old cabin where Brewster Higley wrote the words to what is now the Kansas state song, “Home on the Range,” received a $24,600 grant this past month to help in the cabin’s restoration efforts.
The national debate over fracking has darkened a good-news story for the country: horizontal multistage hydrofracking has reversed the growth of imported oil and natural gas, created hundreds of thousands of American jobs and, in the case of natural gas, dramatically cut prices. In the past few months, the fracking debate moved to Kansas as large companies using horizontal multistage hydrofracking started drilling in Sumner, Harper, Barber and Comanche counties.
This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating Kansas history. The series’ name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: To the stars through difficulties.
A coalition of business groups will propose Kansas start a new program to help some illegal immigrants remain in the state so they can hold down jobs in agriculture and other industries with labor shortages, coalition representatives disclosed Tuesday.
New documents show that the Kansas Bioscience Authority has spent about $122,000 in public funds, nearly twice as much as previously reported, on legal fees for two former executives facing a criminal investigation.
This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating Kansas history. The series’ name comes from the state motto, “Ad astra per aspera: "To the stars through difficulties."
Weve got a state insect, bird, song, animal and tree.
Kansas celebrates its 151st birthday on Sunday.Over the next few days and weeks, Kansans will celebrate with a variety of events.
The former head of the Kansas Bioscience Authority misspent agency funds and destroyed documents on his computer that had been subpoenaed by a prosecutor investigating the agency, according to an in-depth audit of the state-funded authority.
Kansas welfare officials have eliminated or slashed food stamp benefits for hundreds of low-income, U.S.-born children whose parents are illegal immigrants.
Here are some of the major issues legislators will face in the session that begins Monday.