July 2013

The weekly snapshot of Kansas crops shows the winter wheat harvest at the 57 percent mark as of Sunday.

Officials in Sedgwick County want residents to be especially careful with fireworks this week because of debris still awaiting pickup from a recent bout of violent weather.

Several Wichita electric customers told state officials they don't like Westar Energy's latest rate increase proposal, but the company says its increase rates would still be a bargain.

A 21-year-old man has been killed in an all-terrain vehicle near the northeast Kansas town of Delia.

Weather officials in Tornado Alley have raised concerns about a scene in the new Superman movie that they say incorrectly portrays a highway overpass as a safe place to hide during a tornado.

A Kansas Senate committee is preparing to consider Gov. Sam Brownback's appointments of three new members to the state Board of Regents.

The Topeka Police Department doesn't have the necessary funding for a safer, more efficient way to hand out citations.

Authorities in Kansas City, Kan., have evacuated about 20 people from an apartment building after a partial collapse at vacant building next door.