Wichita KS

Francie Foster has known for years who chef Josh Rathbun was. When she’d occasionally dine with big groups at restaurants where he’d worked over the years, Rathbun would sometimes stop by to greet the table. But Foster didn’t really start getting to know the chef personally until she decided to give him one of her...

Wichita State University announced the naming of the Ascension Via Christi — Wichita State University School of Nursing on Thursday.

Jonearl Smith was sentenced to 52 months in prison for his guilty plea to two counts of criminal discharge of a firearm and one count of criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, after a shooting in Wichita led to a fatal crash.

Governor Laura Kelly has issued a verbal disaster declaration for Harvey County due to an unknown source of gas leak under a Newton housing development, and state agencies are working to mitigate the danger and track the source of the gas.

A boil water advisory has been issued for the City of Cawker City public water supply system located in Mitchell County.

Installation of the paid parking signage and equipment for phase 3 in Wichita, will begin on September 2. Installation of the paid parking signage and equipment for phase 3 in Wichita, will begin on September 2.

It took Carol Cole a while to appreciate all that makes St. Paul A.M.E. Church special. Sure, the church seemed grand and even a little intimidating to her as a child, its sanctuary filled with beautiful music and stirring sermons. But maybe she didn’t pay enough attention to who was filling the pews.

Schools across the state are being asked to repay money after a Kansas Department of Health and Environment error resulted in more than $11 million in overpaid Medicaid funding. The mistake was discovered after an audit of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment found discrepancies in data that had gone...

SEDGWICK COUNTY —A Kansas man accused in a violent knife attack will learn his fate Friday afternoon. Judge Quentin Pitman will sentence 38-year-old Julian Gonzalez of Newton. In July, a jury found him guilty of attempted murder in the 1st degree, aggravated battery, two counts of aggravated endangering a...

In part of east Wichita, a gun crime was 9.4 times more likely to happen at or within 300 feet of a gas station. It was 5.2 times more likely within 300 feet of a bar and 3.6 times more likely within 300 feet of a phone store. That’s what Wichita police learned from one of the department’s latest strategies to curb...