1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (176+ words) You might consider visiting businesses that passed recent health inspections. Here are 63 locations in Sedgwick County that passed food safety or lodging inspections July 26 to Aug. 1, according to the state. Many had few or no violations. The health checks occurred…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago   (585+ words) When most people look at the CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter, they see an iconic tandem-rotor silhouette that has defined American military logistics for more than 60 years. They see the aircraft that hauled cargo through the jungles of Vietnam, navigated the…...

5+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1706+ words) Luis Rascon didn’t notice the gray SUVs parked near his home when he left for work. It was April 1, just before sunrise in Lyons, Kansas. He was thinking about concrete jobs and payroll. Within 18 days he would find himself living…...

5+ hour, 42+ min ago   (225+ words) In a new analysis aimed at finding the best U.S. states to live in, Kansas just barely made the top half. The Sunflower State ranked No. 24 in the report released Aug. 10 by financial company WalletHub. To rank the states, WalletHub compared…...

21+ hour, 3+ min ago   (206+ words) A 36-year-old inmate fatally shot himself Friday after escaping from the work release facility in downtown Wichita, officials said. Jauwon Allen was placed on escape status after walking away from the Wichita Work Release Facility, a satellite unit of the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (439+ words) I don’t know what I expected from Kansas Campaign 2026, but it wasn’t a United States senator accusing his opponent, an ordained Christian minister, of being a heretic. But that’s the depths to which Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, and his senatorial…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (484+ words) Employees who didn’t wash their hands, flies, grease and grime, food that wasn’t stored at safe temperatures and more are among violations state inspectors discovered during recent food safety and lodging inspections in the Wichita area. Each week, The Eagle…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (76+ words) Wichita Eagle Derby is exploring ways to reduce crashes on Rock Road, its busiest corridor, which accounts for 35% to 41% of all car accidents in the Wichita suburb each year. A new engineering study identified about $14 million in potential safety improvements…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (326+ words) Evidence suggests Ronald Williams, 53, and Kelly George, 44, “jointly shared culpability for premeditated plans to kill their children and then themselves” on Tuesday morning, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Friday. Investigators did not say what evidence led them to believe…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (91+ words) Valley Center City Administrator Cyndra Kastens showed the Valley Center City Council a second option for keeping fire protection services under the city's control at a specially called meeting Thursday. The City Council will vote on one of three options…...