Between 1999 and 2019, the increase in the number of Indigenous pregnant women dying in Kansas was among the worst in the country. That’s why a group of Kansas women is training people to help expecting Indigenous moms through pregnancy and birth. We have more about the new doula program.
Plus more on these stories:
- Wichita will install safety barriers to protect city bus drivers after a transit employee was assaulted last summer.
- Sedgwick County will require water to be processed in unincorporated parts of the county to try to keep the Arkansas River and Lake Afton clean.
- The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says a 63-year-old jail inmate died Tuesday.
- A community group in Wichita’s historic Midtown will restore a duplex in the area that was first built in 1923.
- The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks will hold a town hall in El Dorado about fee increases at state parks.
- Small western Kansas high schools are switching to six-man football to keep their teams alive, while their town’s populations shrink. It’s a trend likely to grow.
- A new nonprofit in Reno County will try to address some of the issues surrounding child care.
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