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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Kansas – Cold air presses low across south-central Kansas this morning, leaving wet pavement, gray skies, and a thin edge of winter tension in the air. Cars kick up mist on city streets, and shaded areas...

Days after an annual federal survey sent state and local agencies to count the number of homeless Kansans across the state, legislators will hear a bill Wednesday to allow counties to step up enforcement on illegal camps along rivers. The bill strikes previous language that limited criminal trespassing charges to...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An overnight shooting in a southeast Wichita neighborhood sent a man to a local hospital in critical condition, a Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor confirmed. The Wichita Police Department confirmed that officers arrested one person in connection with the crime it described as “a domestic...

The Wichita City Council convened on January 20, 2026, for a marathon session that lasted from 9:00 AM until adjournment at 12:27 PM. The meeting was dominated by extensive discussion of the troubled Wichita Water Works project, revealing that liquidated damages were not extended past the September 2024 substantial...

Matthew Criscenzo was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder, felony murder, kidnapping and aggravated battery.

"After numerous attempts to make contact and he being uncooperative, our SWAT team made entry into the apartment."

It took them a couple of days longer than they initially expected, but the people bringing Pizza Shuttle to Wichita opened the restaurant on Monday, Feb. 2. Though the Pizza Shuttle website didn’t reflect as of Monday morning that Wichita’s Pizza Shuttle was open, it is, said licensee Justin Neel. For now, people can...

Former St. Louis television news anchor Angelynn Mock has been found mentally unfit to stand trial in connection with the alleged stabbing death of her mother in Wichita, Kansas. Mock, charged with first-degree murder, is accused of killing her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, at their home on Oct. 31, 2025. The...

The superintendent said the district had a large number of students and faculty sick, so it canceled classes and sports for the next two days to try to stop the spread.