Wichita KS

During the August 12 Andover City Council meeting, a crowd of residents came to support each other in voicing their concerns for the council’s vote to raise their compensation by 100%. The good old-fashioned way of talking with the city council may have changed their minds about the compensation raise.

When CVS entered the Wichita market in 2013 , the CVS that opened at Central and Oliver was particularly heralded as being a boon for that part of Wichita. Now, the store is closing. A representative confirmed in an e-mail that the Rhode Island-based chain “made the difficult decision to close” that store as of Sept....

Strong to severe storms arrive early this week. Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman tracks the potential for rainfall over the next few days and much cooler temps arriving for the weekend.

A man has been formally charged in connection with the death of a man in the parking lot of a truck stop in north Wichita.

A Derby High School teacher is returning to school with two jobs...teaching students and fighting a cancer diagnosis she says she only received last month. With the school year officially underway, Christina Gizzarelli, the biology teacher of seven years, says the excitement from her students is one thing that stayed...

News Freight Passenger Mechanical M/W C&S/IT Finance Regulatory Conferences. Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93 is on its way to Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Mo., for a complete cosmetic restoration, Wichita, Kans.-based Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) reported Aug. 17. Built by the...

Congregate care facilities house foster children in settings ranging from drop-in day programs to inpatient mental health care. Advocates say these buildings need more oversight to curb suspected abuse of children. The license for Carla’s Youth Residential Center in Wichita was suspended in 2018 after suspected cases...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Like this past weekend, today will be hot and humid but welcome changes will be arriving soon. Afternoon temperatures in the middle 90s will feel like 100 degrees, if not hotter and strenuous outdoor activities should be avoided. A batch of showers and storms will move...

A 19-year-old man is arrested in connection to a fatal hit-and-run that killed a 14-year-old boy last week. 14-year-old Jackson Nzabonimpa died last Wednesday when a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed struck a utility pole, causing it to hit the boy as he was standing on a nearby sidewalk. Jackson died at the...

Dan Clifford has been named as the executive director of Wichita's Second Light homeless shelter and services at 1025 N. Main.