Brian Grimmett
News ReporterBrian Grimmett is a two-time Regional Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist covering energy and environment stories across the state of Kansas. Brian loves to dive deep into complicated issues with the hope of making them easier to understand for general audiences, as with the award-winning hard news feature Westar Wants Kansans To Pay For Peak Power. What Could It Mean For Your Energy Bill?
Brian comes to KMUW and the Kansas News Service from KUER 90.1 FM in Salt Lake City, where he started as an intern and left as a full-time reporter covering the Utah state legislature.
Brian earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from Brigham Young University. When not reporting, he enjoys spending time with his family and building/flying remote control planes and drones.
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For starters, the COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for Ness County in west-central Kansas landed somewhere else.“That was my first clue we had a problem,”…
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WICHITA, Kansas — The number of Kansans who have died from COVID-19 topped 2,000 on Friday after the state announced 131 new deaths.How quickly the state…
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WICHITA, Kansas — The first of potentially several COVID-19 vaccines could get emergency approval by the end of the week.But that major milestone is just…
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WICHITA — Coronavirus cases are at record levels. Just in time to pretty much ruin Thanksgiving.In Kansas, those cases have hospitals worried about having…
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WICHITA, Kansas — Charles Bell usually passes on voting. He’s a Democrat in a Republican state and said, “If I vote, it’s not going to count.”But after…
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WICHITA, Kansas — The state’s largest utility wants to charge customers with solar panels about $25 a month, even if their homes pull almost no…
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WICHITA, Kansas — The blow the coronavirus dealt to the Kansas economy left tens of thousands of people in the state struggling to pay their utility…
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GREAT BEND, Kansas — Emerging infectious diseases like the coronavirus don’t just threaten humans. They’re also a major concern for the livestock industry…
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WICHITA, Kansas —Katie Hansen’s recent trip from Columbus, Ohio, through Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Wichita felt pretty familiar.Sure,…
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Climate change is at the root of this year’s extreme weather events, from the wild swings between flooding and drought in Kansas to larger hurricanes and…