The Latest Breaking News from Kansas

The paper condemned ‘Gestapo’ tactics after a police raid targeted journalists who investigated a local restaurant owner and police chief. The following day, the co-owner collapsed and died. Alex Woodward reports

City’s entire five-officer force seize computers, cellphones and reporting materials from offices of local paper

Hawaii will be “utterly destroyed” on Sunday, said the Westboro Baptist Church. The controversial church, based in Kansas, said that “the churches of Hawaii have doomed the inhabitants with lies about the eternal God”, adding that “the watchers must (and will) publicly pronounce the warning on Sunday”. It “was not…

The Kansas bar where nine people were wounded by gunfire last month has permanently closed

The USGS wants to test if butterflies and other insects are being hurt by contaminants, such as those in pesticides. It's seeking specimens from Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

Lily Wu and Brandon Whipple's contrasting profiles highlight party fluidity and priority issues in nonpartisan race.

A farmer from Kansas planted 1.2 million sunflowers as a surprise anniversary present for his wife. Lee Wilson, who met his partner Renee at high school, told reporters that he’d asked himself “What’s a guy get his gal on their 50th?”, then decided to sow an 80-acre field four miles…

Lily Wu finished first, and incumbent Brandon Whipple finished second in the top two nonpartisan primary election for mayor of Wichita, Kansas, on Aug. 1. Wu and Whipple advanced to the Nov. 7 general election from a field of nine candidates.

‘What’s a guy get his gal for the 50th?’ Lee Wilson secretly planted 80 acres of sunflowers to surprise his wife