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The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office is trying to fill nearly 100 job openings at the jail.

he company, headquartered in Wichita, said this is the second time it’s been recognized since becoming an ENERGY STAR partner in January 2015.

A woman died and a man was critically injured in an early Wednesday morning in a crash near Augusta.

Wednesday marks nine years to the day that a tornado forever changed a Segwick County community.

Wichita State University on Wednesday, April 14, announced that NASA awarded a $2 million garnt to a physics professor to study the sun.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt led a bipartisan effort in pressing Congress for increased funding to provide the necessary tools for state and local law enforcement agencies to identify, report and prevent hate crimes in their jurisdictions.

The state also reported 14 new deaths and 39 hospitalizations since Monday.

Anyone who has ever negotiated the line of vehicles at a school drop-off zone knows how frustrating the daily process can be.

Wichita police arrested a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy on Tuesday.

The five-year-old girl injured in a crash involving former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid is out of the hospital.

The Kansas Department of Health has issued an air quality health advisory for southern Kansas.

Atchison schools will no longer have Native American-themed mascots after action taken Monday night by the Atchison Unified School District 409 Board of Education, according to KAIR Radio.

A trip to Kauffman Stadium Monday night (April 12) ended in an unforgettable experience for a Los Angeles Angels fan from Maize.

Members of the Wichita Police Department received awards Tuesday (April 14) from the AFT for an in-depth investigation that led to the arrest of a serial shooter last year.

The City of Wichita and the State of Kansas could lose out on millions of dollars if the NCAA sticks with its comments supporting transgender student athletes.

Kansas Republicans are responding in full force to what they call threats from the NCAA.

A piece of good news for the local aviation industry comes with confirmation of a large contract for Textron Aviation.

First responders in Sedgwick County came together Tuesday for a training day.

A former Wichita police officer will head to prison after pleading no contest to child sex crimes.

For the time being, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is on hold.

Rain chances will return to the state over the next few days.

Sedgwick County is holding a town hall meeting Tuesday evening to help dispel myths and relay accurate information surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Newton school district reports receiving a gas bill that approached $200,000.

A new initiative at the Sedgwick County Zoo is designed to “promote and accommodate a positive experience for all guests with a sensory issue.”

A woman suffered serious injuries Tuesday afternoon after a shooting in northeast Wichita.

A CDC Emerging Variant known as the Brazilian or P.1 variant has been identified in an individual in Sedgwick County.

A 47-year-old man with terminal cancer was freed from a Kansas prison after officials agreed his medical condition is so severe he is not a danger to public safety.

One of the six cases being examined in relation to the blood clot reports that halted the distribution of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday is a Nebraska woman, according to a CDC report.

Counties across Kansas are pausing the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is putting a pause to the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the state.