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Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 7:41 PM CDT
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
Learning to conserve water at a young age, dozens of families in Hays celebrated World Water Day on Tuesday.
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Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 5:15 PM CDT
|By KWCH Staff
The Garden City Police Department has ruled a homicide that occurred last week a matter of self defense.
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Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 9:01 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Boot Hill Casino will host a gaggle of big names in Kansas sports as the DraftKings sportsbook retail location opens to the public.
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Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 10:40 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Garden City Police Department is investigating after a man died from his injuries in a shooting reported early Monday morning in the city.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 10:22 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Seward County Sheriff’s Office and the KBI are investigating a death after the discovery of human remains in northern Seward County.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:43 PM CST
|By Alex Jirgens and KWCH Staff
In Finney and Gray counties, damage from straight line winds included toppled power lines and damaged buildings.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 4:47 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
The town of Liberal saw some of the worst of it with homes heavily damaged and downed power lines.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 7:43 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A semi-truck driver was sent to the hospital after the livestock truck he was driving had flipped on a western Kansas interstate.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 7:44 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
On Tuesday, the 74th year of the race, Olney took back bragging rights after Liberal claimed victory last year.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 4:21 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The “Indian” mascot for Hays High School didn’t come up for reconsideration at the board’s meeting.
7-Day Forecast
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 5:04 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
Road conditions in Western Kansas continue to worsen as a winter storm moves through.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 9:07 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
A winter storm expected to bring up to six inches of snow to a large swath of Kansas’ western half and north central Kansas is prompting several school closures.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 7:14 PM CST
|By Austin Morton
Sophia Linenberger said she hopes Patrick Mahomes can use motivation from the wristband she gave him to go as far as he can go.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 1:29 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Barton County Sheriff’s Office seeking more information in the case of more than $25,000 in stolen hay.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 12:22 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
Garden City police arrested a 36-year-old man on Wednesday accused of stealing from a local church.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 7:19 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
Needing volunteer help is nothing new and national parks are no exception. Just outside the town that shares its name, Fort Larned needs volunteers to help the historic site with its efforts to educate and entertain visitors.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 12:31 AM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
In Ellinwood, a new local business, Crazy Wolf Coffee, is serving up drinks in a unique way and quickly finding success in doing so.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 4:39 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Golden Belt Humane Society in Great Bend is alerting the public about a man and woman who have been reportedly driving around town in an unmarked SUV approaching pet owners as local Animal Control Officers.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:22 PM CST
|By Austin Morton
The Camber Children’s Mental Hospital is set to open by the end of February in Hays.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 11:48 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
Former Wichita police officer Chester Pinkston, deputy chief with the department since 2020, is moving his law-enforcement career to southwest Kansas.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
A piece of military history is coming to life with a special project in a small Barton County town.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 4:45 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Kansas Attorney General’s Office confirmed a more-than-eight-year prison sentence for a 28-year-old Goodland man in connection with an infant’s death in 2020.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 8:04 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A new, state-of-the-art mental health facility will start to provide care to children and teens in Western Kansas in February 2023.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 6:33 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
A Hays home sustained heavy damage, but a mother is grateful after a pickup rolled into her 2-year-old son’s bedroom. She’s relieved because the family wasn’t home when it happened.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:48 PM CST
|By Alex Jirgens and KWCH Staff
A hectic situation that involved a shootout, a suspect’s death and injury to three deputies remains under investigation in Dodge City.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 5:30 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
The subject of a historic sighting in Western Kansas is getting continued care about two-and-a-half hours from where the discovery happened.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 3:32 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
A 56-year-old woman from Ensign died in a one-vehicle crash reported Monday morning in Ford County.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 10:31 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
The Santa Fe Trail's history is celebrated in Pawnee County.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 8:29 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
Board of education members in the Central Plains school district in their meeting Monday night voted to close the junior/senior high school in Wilson,
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 6:20 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
Approaching a week since 22-year-old Daniel Howard was shot and killed outside a bar in Oklahoma City, teammates and coaches with the Fort Hays State University football program, are remembering Howard as more than an athlete.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 7:47 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
A 12-year-old girl near Bucklin recently started a creative endeavor that’s evolved into a successful business.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 10:18 PM CST
|By Alex Jirgens
The Hays Police Department dropped charges after a THC vape pen was found in a terminally ill man’s hospital room.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 6:29 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
It was a long week for an Army servicemen in Kansas before the improbable happened just in time for Christmas.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 8:50 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
For many Friday, Dec. 23, was the day to hit the road for holiday destinations.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 6:28 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff and Austin Morton
A powerful winter storm blanketed Kansas Thursday morning, bringing in cold and creating slick roads slick, but it also produced a lot of business for tow companies across the state.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 2:49 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The City of Garden City has issued a boil water advisory for portions of the city's public water supply system in Finney County.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 6:11 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff and Shawn Loging
One year ago, on December 15, 2021, a massive derecho whipped through Kansas packing wind gusts of up to 100 miles per hour.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 8:27 PM CST
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
With the holiday season upon us, a roofing company in Hays wants to give back in a big way.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 8:12 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff and Austin Morton
The special election concerns a half-cent sales tax that’s been in place for nearly two decades.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 4:52 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Graham County school district called off school for Friday due to widespread illness.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 11:58 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Garden City Police Department (GCPD) on Tuesday. issued an urgent message concerning cases of avian influenza, or “bird flu.”
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 7:07 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
Wednesday-afternoon traffic stop in Meade County led to an investigation into possible human trafficking.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 11:22 AM CST
|By KWCH Staff
Finney County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 21-year-old woman after they said her infant suffered a possible drug overdose.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 4:45 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
Officers learned Tuesday’s call to Charles O. Stones Intermediate Center involved an 11-year-old student possessing an Airsoft gun.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 10:37 AM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Garden City Police Department is investigating a weekend shooting that left one man injured and led to the arrest of another.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 9:02 AM CST
|By KWCH Staff
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Kansas State Director Christy Davis today announced that USDA is lending $108,249,000 to help Citizens Medical Center in Colby expand critical healthcare services.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:27 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff and Austin Morton
The pheasant and quail hunting season has begun in Kansas, but the drought has changed a few things like where to find the birds.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 9:06 AM CST
|By KWCH Staff
The Garden City Police Department says a missing 22-year-old woman has been located and she is safe.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 3:49 PM CST
|By KWCH Staff
NASA astronaut Nick Hague returned to Kansas this week.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 6:10 PM CDT
|By Austin Morton and KWCH Staff
Like many rural communities, Russell is facing a housing shortage. But instead of building new homes, city officials are looking to revitalize a 100-year-old hotel.