When DOGE cut $2.3 million from a Kansas state agency, it hit rural communities hard. Housing providers already stretched thin closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts, bracing for what’s next.

With President Trump signing an executive order to close the U.S. Department of Education, educators fear they’ll also lose the McKinney-Vento program that protects the educational rights of homeless students along with it.

KMUW News Director Tom Shine will retire in December.

The organization helps families with children overcome homelessness and housing insecurity through prevention, shelter, stabilization and long-term support.

During Tuesday’s Wichita City Council meeting, council members considered affordable apartments at WaterWalk, but the discussion turned into a referendum of sorts on the development.

The former emergency winter shelter transitioned to a privately-run operation on April 1. Operators are optimistic about its future while shelter residents express frustrations.

Twenty years of building permit data shows Wichita lacking 17,000 single-family homes after the pace of construction slowed with the Great Recession. At the current clip for building new homes, it would take more than 25 years to catch up.

As a new Postmaster General with ties to FedEx assumes control of the agency, postal workers and their customers are bracing for either scenario, especially as corporate America weighs in.

More than 200 people attended the Wichita City Council District 1 candidate forum sponsored by the Wichita Journalism Collaborative and held at Wichita State University on July 15.

Homeowners would see $5.75 in savings for every $100,000 their property is worth, but that would likely be offset by increases to appraised values.