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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Wichita State's Jason Parrish and Josh Parrish both broke the Shockers' 23-year-old program record in the 200-meter dash Friday evening at the Steve Miller Invitational. The Parrish twins went 1-2 in their heat of the 200, finishing second and third overall, as Jason Parrish set a...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Wichita, Kansas – Kansans should mark March 3 now, when a rare 58-minute Blood Moon will unfold across the state, delivering Kansas’ last visible total lunar eclipse until 2028. According to NASA eclipse...

Employees who failed to wash their hands after using the bathroom or touching their faces, dead bugs in liquor bottles, old beef, a business operating without hot water, missing food labels and more are among violations state inspectors discovered during recent food safety and lodging inspections in the Wichita area.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Former Wichita radio DJ Greg ‘The Hitman’ Williams died early Saturday morning after a months long battle with cancer. Williams was a radio DJ for Power 93.5 and KEYN for 25 years before being laid off in March of 2025. He shared that he was among several employees impacted by a “massive”...

NEWTON, Kan. (KWCH) - A grain bin accident south of Newton on Saturday left one person dead and two others injured. Harvey County confirmed that emergency crews were called to the 2100 block of south Spencer Road at 2:30 p.m. This is just south of Newton. Three men were working...

KANSAS — A 75-year-old man died following a single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in northeast Wichita, according to police. The crash occurred in the 6800 block of East Winterberry Circle. Wichita Police said the man was driving the vehicle and is believed to have experienced a medical emergency that led to...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - UPDATE: Wichita Police said a body found in a private pond in northeast Wichita Saturday afternoon appears to have been in the water for a while. WPD did say the body found is a man who did not have any obvious signs of trauma. The man’s...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Downtown Wichita, a nonprofit, announced on Thursday that the clean team has expanded, and Block by Block will now manage it. The team is now made up of four full-time employees, instead of just two part-time employees. The employees go to different locations between Washington...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A group of Kansas middle school students are preparing to travel to New York City to walk in the footsteps of civil rights photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks — the man their school is named after. “I was really excited to be able to do...

When someone in Wichita experiences a mental health or substance use crisis, the response they receive can shape outcomes for years to come — for the patient, their family and our entire community. For too long, people in crisis had very limited options. Emergency rooms, police cars and jail cells play critical roles...