Wichita KS

One Debry teacher was selected to march in the 2026 Rose Parade with the Band Directors Marching Band.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Meteorologist Jake Dunne says it is a foggy start to our Christmas Eve, and your travel plans may be impacted until midday, especially along and east of a Hays to Pratt line. Later today as skies turn partly cloudy temperatures will top out in the middle to upper 60s.

WICHITA, KAN. – Alex Emillano Jaramillo, 45, a minimum-custody resident of the Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF) has been apprehended. Jaramillo was taken into custody Wednesday morning, December 24, after surrendering to authorities at a local hospital, according to a media release from the Kansas Department of...

SEDGWICK COUNTY — A suspect arrested in connection with an ongoing child abuse investigation made his first appearance in court last week. A judge charged 30-year-old Kevin D. Mitchell with abuse of child. He is also charged with two counts of failure to appear, according to online jail records.

Add another biggie to the long list of local restaurants that won’t make it out of 2025. The Breadbasket on Newton’s Main Street is shutting its doors after four decades. The restaurant has served its last German buffet and is in its final days of business. The owner recently said he’d continue serving food until the...

Immediately, people he’d impacted with his jolly spirit reached out to ask how they could help repay all those Christmas memories.

Wichita meteorologists have deemed Christmas Day of 2025 the warmest on city record after temperatures reached 75 degrees Thursday afternoon. The recorded temperature surpassed the previous record, 68 degrees, set in 2019. According to National Weather Service Wichita data , the coldest Christmas Day in Wichita was...

After being closed for most of the year, the Cessna Penguin Cove at the zoo will reopen on Thursday.

HARVEY COUNTY —One person was injured in an accident just after 1:30p.m. Wednesday in Harvey County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2025 Kawasaki motorcycle driven by Curtis Moss, 48, Lindsborg, was northbound in the left lane of Interstate 135 at E First Street in Newton. A southbound 2024 Ford Maverick driven...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Traffic was diverted on the Kansas Turnpike Wednesday morning, south of a Topeka, due to a multi-vehicle accident involving a semi that caught fire. The crash was reported around 6:54 a.m. near mile marker 155 in the northbound lanes of Interstate 335. That’s about seven miles north of the...