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Wichita Mayor Lily Wu used her mayoral powers to call for a special meeting on Wednesday. Wu had hoped to delay a vote on a sales tax proposal until August.
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The Robert L. Cattoi Book Technologies Lab opened late last year on the sixth floor of Lindquist Hall at Wichita State University. It features a collection of bookbinding and printing tools. -
This week on "The Range," the craft of classic book-making. Also, a rare look at a piece of civil rights history. -
Allen Epley of the group Shiner was a college student when he began playing in bands in and around Kansas City, Missouri in the late 1980s. In 2026 many of his peers from that time are still active in that music scene, something he says, is a real reward for years of hard work. -
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is asking for civility and compromise in the face of national political divides. She starts her final session in office with a Republican supermajority that can override her if it holds together. -
Stadium deals in Kansas and Washington — both involving relocations within the same metropolitan area — have set separate records for taxpayer subsidies to sports teams. That's despite decades of research suggesting stadiums are a wasteful use of limited tax dollars.
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Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images; Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesSee if you can get a perfect score for once. -
Steffan Hill/HBOThere are no dragons, no maps and no internecine family trees in this Game of Thrones prequel about an underdog knight and his would-be squire.
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Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency. -
A Republican-led congressional subcommittee is leading a new investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Do their claims add up? -
Jodie Foster has spoken French since she was a child. But it's only now that she's taken on a lead role scripted almost entirely in the language of Molière, for A Private Life. -
A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree. -
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.
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Here in Kansas, it may not always feel like mid-January. With daytime highs climbing into the 50s and 60s, it's easy to forget that winter still has a grip on the growing season. On today's "Flyover Food," Chef Travis Russell tells us about the impact of the winter months on the world of food.
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