food desert

The mobile farmers' market delivers fruits and vegetables to areas in and around Wichita where fresh produce is hard to find.

A Wichita woman takes her farmers market on the road to people who don’t have easy access to fruits and vegetables.Donna Pearson McClish runs the Common…

Valley Center’s only independent grocery store, Leeker’s Family Foods, closed this weekend. The store was not only a place to buy food, but it also served…

A small Kansas town's effort to replace its lone grocery store is getting a big boost from the federal government.A $780,000 Community Economic…

A brick building that was the only grocery store in St. John sits vacant, its glass doors covered with paper since it closed early last year.St. John is…

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran helped introduce a new bill aimed at giving relief to food deserts across the country.Moran says that 1 in 6 Kansans is affected…

Wichita Transit is trying out a new program it says will help people in food deserts get to grocery stores.The Point To Point program offers door-to-door…

During a Friday visit to Junction City, Kansas, that included a stop at a food pantry site, U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall said he would work to maintain…

A furniture store, not a grocery store, will soon occupy the former Walmart Neighborhood Market in northeast Wichita.Walmart closed several Neighborhood…

Eight rural communities across Kansas will share $120,000 in grants over the next year to find ways to improve access to fresh produce.Many rural grocery…