WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Most Kansas schoolchildren and teachers, regardless of whether they've been vaccinated against COVID-19, won't be required to wear face masks next school year. Schools find themselves under pressure to return to more normal, p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Dressed in a red velvet gown, sparkly jewelry and white painted fingernails, Divinity Masters said she decided to read "Red: A Crayon Story" at the Wichita Public Library because of its message. "I picked this book because I t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — It's bath day for the pet rats and ferrets at Southeast High School in Wichita. Kenneth Borja gently lifts one of the rats — Zeus, Poseidon or Hades, it's hard to tell which — out of his cage. He carries the animal to the sink,...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University leased a building on its campus to a new private school that began construction, hired staff and is well on its way to welcoming its first students — all without a public vote or open bidding process. How...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — In "American Heart," a young adult novel by Laura Moriarty, the United States government is rounding up Muslims and relocating them to internment camps in Nevada. Fifteen-year-old Sarah Mary, a white girl from Missouri, meets a...