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At Walk Your Plans Wichita, an immersive technology service, clients project blueprints of new home builds or remodels onto the floor and walls of a giant warehouse to test proportions and gauge traffic flow before construction begins.
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Wichita's public radio station is the Large Market Radio Station of the Year for the 13th year in a row.
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For more than 80 years, a sign along U.S. 50 near Dodge City has served as the midway marker for cross-country travelers making their way through Kansas. For this month’s Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner takes us to Kinsley, where the historic sign points the way in two directions.
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At least 460 people in Kansas have become ill this summer due to an outbreak of the cyclospora parasite.
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Food safety experts say contaminated water in farm fields is a likely culprit. But questions still remain about the current outbreak.
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Bonds-Raacke is the former president of Saint Martin’s University, a private Catholic school in Washington.
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The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan's finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" to compensate his political allies.
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An 18-month investigation by The Seattle Times, KUOW and NPR's Embedded podcast and a review of more than a dozen videos from the night of the shooting reveal the most comprehensive view to date of how the chaotic scene unfolded. And they show how a Black teenager who came to join the civil rights movement of his generation — in a zone abandoned by police — ended up killed by a protest movement that thought he was a threat.
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About 1 in 4 babies in the Pakistani fishing settlement of Rehri Goth are born prematurely. Researchers are trying to figure out how to bring the numbers down.
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Laila AnnMarie Stevens documents her family's move from New York City to North Carolina — a kind of reversal of the historic Great Migration of the early 20th century.
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NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Cyclospora, the parasite that has sickened thousands this summer in the U.S., requires time in the human digestive tract to reproduce.
Commentary & Podcasts
For no reason whatsoever, we look at some words that come from Homer's famous tale and Ancient Greek more generally.
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