Wichita band Vehicles celebrates the tenth anniversary of its album "This Bluebird Wants Me Dead" this weekend with a performance at Wave. The band's Cody Cloud recently spoke with KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin. We have their conversation.
Plus more on these stories:
- Kansas teens in foster care may soon be able to choose relatives or close friends to become their custodial parents.
- Pregnant women in Kansas would have to get an ultrasound before having an abortion under a bill introduced by Republican lawmakers. It’s one of two abortion restrictions introduced this week.
- A new set of regulations to build utility-scale solar projects in Sedgwick County cleared the planning commission Thursday.
- The Sedgwick County commission has voted to increase pay for emergency communications workers by 6 percent.
- Free naloxone vending machines are being placed across Kansas, including Wichita, to combat the growing number of opioid overdoses.
- Workers at a west Wichita Starbucks have voted against forming a union.
- New data shows some farmers in Kansas live on areas of land where the aquifer isn't robust and is at higher risk of depletion.
- The Wichita Public Library will host its annual Academy Award Short Film Festival next month.
Producers: Beth Golay and Lu Anne Stephens
Editors: Beth Golay and Tom Shine
Contributors: Jedd Beaudoin, Kylie Cameron, Daniel Caudill, Celia Hack, Dylan Lysen, Calen Moore, and Tom Shine
Theme music: Torin Andersen
Digital editor: Karlee Cooper