-
Vulnerable Kansans already struggled to find housing. Federal funding cuts will make it even harder.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.
-
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.
-
Uniting more than 200 sites across eastern Kansas and western Missouri, Freedom's Frontier preserves the story of the border war and the settlement of the western frontier. But the Trump administration has blocked funding for National Heritage Areas.
-
The city of Prairie Village wants to move ahead with a new $30 million municipal complex, but a vocal group of residents say the public deserves more input. Signs with the message "Let Prairie Village Vote" have begun popping up in yards across town.
-
Previously, Tom George converted the former Sunnyside Elementary and Kellogg Elementary schools in Wichita and the former Bown-Corby School in Marion.
-
Manu Meel, the keynote speaker for the Kansas state finals Civics Bee, leads BridgeUSA, a program that promotes healthy conversations amidst polarization.
-
Cuts to AmeriCorps are affecting food programs in Belle Plaine and Wichita and their ability to help alleviate poverty.