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Brian E. Kushner
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As many as 100 million or 200 million birds will fly northward along the Central Flyway on Saturday night. Kansas, Missouri and neighboring states lie in the hottest of hotspots.
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Solar flares are causing a geomagnetic storm that should make it possible for Kansas City and other cities in the middle of the country to see the aurora borealis, which can usually only be glimpsed in northern latitudes. The best views are expected around midnight. -
It’s been a year since NASA kicked off an effort to provide farmers with useful information garnered from satellite images of Earth. The program includes research at two universities in the Midwest. -
This week on The Range...why trivia rules at one Wichita cider house. Also, we talk with a Wichita woman who’s on a mission to share her Native pride. -
There’s no shortage of options for trivia in Wichita … there’s usually a game somewhere every night of the week. But one trivia gathering has become one of the zaniest contests the city has to offer. -
George Thorogood and The Destroyers will perform at The Cotillion Ballroom on Sunday, May 12.
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Odelyn Joseph/APBarbecue is the man who convinced many of Haiti's gangs to stop fighting each other and start fighting the government. He spoke to NPR about his latest plans. -
Amar Patel/Courtesy of Vinay PatelA new type of traveler is part of the post-pandemic reset at U.S. hotels, along with fewer daily cleanings and pancake-slinging machines.
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From California to North Carolina, students staged chants and walkouts over the weekend in protest of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza. -
Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction. -
After initiation rites – including circumcision – the boys leave their families to take charge of the herds, driving them high into the mountains. It's a way of life that climate change is testing. -
Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother. -
After weeks of preparation, crews are scheduled to conduct a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.
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Book reviewer Suzanne Perez says she used to avoid contemporary romance novels. But the latest book by rom-com queen Emily Henry proves what all the fuss is about.
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