Flint Hills

A group of south Kansas landowners and ranchers had hoped the Kansas Corporation Commission would reject Evergy’s proposal for a new major transmission line. Instead the energy company got the okay to build the line up to the Flint Hills perimeter.

The event will return to the site of the 2019 concert, which was cancelled because of bad weather.

The Symphony in the Flint Hills is back after two years of cancellations — and so far there’s no threat of another cancellation on the horizon.Through…

The tallgrass prairie once covered more than 170 million acres across North America.Today, only about 4% is left, and most of it can be found in the Flint…

More than a century after the arrival of the railroads to the Flint Hills of Kansas, a large-scale track expansion is tearing up a scenic stretch in some…

Kansas ranchers eager to prepare their land for cattle grazing have mostly brushed off the plea from state health officials to voluntarily cut back this…

Wichita — Cindy Hoedel and Scott Yeargain, who live in or near the Kansas Flint Hills, began looking into oil and gas operations near their homes as early…

The Symphony in the Flint Hills on Saturday canceled its signature event — an outdoor performance by the Kansas City Symphony — for the first time in...

The 13th annual Symphony in the Flint Hills event will take place Saturday in Butler County.The one-day event is organized to educate people about the…

A decade ago, Kansans felt an earthquake once every few years. Now ground tremors come regularly. One of the hardest hit areas is Harper County in the…