Local News
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Less than half of Wichita teachers support the school district’s new strategic plan. And a sampling of responses to a recent survey reveal educators who are frustrated by student behavior and a perceived lowering of standards.
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Kansas will be the first state to let foster teens pick a family without losing foster care benefitsOlder foster children in Kansas who face aging out of care will soon be able to choose their own families. In the past, they had to sometimes choose between being adopted or keeping important foster care benefits like free college tuition.
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The point-in-time (PIT) count occurs annually in January. Volunteers and trained professionals walk miles across Sedgwick County to survey people experiencing homelessness.
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The city of Wichita is slowly bringing its systems back online after being hit by a malware ransom attack earlier this month.
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For this month's Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner shows us how buffalo talk to each other on the Kansas prairie.
NPR News
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Montana is key to determining which party controls the Senate, so voter response there to former President Trump's conviction for falsifying business records is especially important.
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NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant talk about Major League Baseball's new inclusion of Negro League stats into its record books.
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Simmering tensions over the South China Sea are front and center during an annual security conference in Singapore this weekend, where there's dueling rhetoric from China and the Philippines.
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Florida recently issued new guidance on when an abortion can be performed, but providers say it has caused even more confusion.
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In the week that Mexico goes to the polls, meet the Mexican scientist who invented the indelible liquid that's revolutionized the way many vote.