Wichita KS

Wellington Fire Rescue was dispatched at 3:42 a.m. on Sunday morning to the intersection of 50th Avenue North and North Hoover Road for a reported train derailment involving a Union Pacific Railroad train. Upon arrival, crews located approximately 28 rail cars that had derailed from the tracks. The train was...

An Alaska Airlines flight bound for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport returned safely to Wichita on Sunday after a passenger’s cell phone and portable power bank overheated and ignited mid-air, airline and airport officials confirmed. Flight 2117, operated by Horizon Air on behalf of Alaska Airlines, departed...

Mark Klaassen, 37, was one of three farmers in the grain bin

Wellington Fire said most of the damage was confined to the garage and that the home had some smoke and water damage.

A train transporting grain derailed in Wellington early Sunday morning.

The Clark County firefighter, injured at a brush fire last week, is in a burn unit at a Wichita hospital. Sometimes, all you need is a lift. And, that's just what Wichita firefighters did for the son of a Clark County colleague injured battling a wildfire last week. On Thursday,...

Fans of local chef Youssef Youssef’s hummus and gyros — and there are many of them — expressed distress when in December he suddenly closed his Sesame Mediterranean Kitchen in NewMarket Square . Now, Sesame’s food is available again at a new address — and in a new town. Youssef reopened Sesame two weeks ago in the...

WICHITA, Kan. — Amid days of intense wildfire operations across Kansas, firefighters coordinated to help a son visit his hospitalized father. Two Clark County firefighters were injured while battling fires in mid-February and were flown to a Wichita burn unit for treatment, KAKE reported. | WEBINAR: Unified command...

A Wichita man suspected of serving as a bookie while employed at Mulvane’s Kansas Star Casino has been arrested and charged with illegal gambling crimes, the attorney general’s office said. 47-year-old Quoc Phu Lam of Wichita was arrested last week after an investigation by the Kansas Racing and...

* Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers (Wichita, Kansas) has unveiled plans to add restaurants in Canada’s Ontario and British Columbia provinces. Target cities include Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Victoria. The fast-casual brand opened its first Canadian locales last year, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Okotoks,...