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Can video games like “Call of Duty: World War II” and “Battlefield 1942” be shaping the way young people view history?Andrew Denning thinks so.Denning, an…

This story was updated April 14 The NoMar Theater in Wichita's North End has a new owner.Gene Camarena won last week's auction for the historic theater at…

During the Civil Rights movement, the late scholar Ronald Walters helped lead a sit-in that desegregated the Dockum Drug Store. Now his hometown of Wichita, Kan., is naming a library after him.

Time may be running out for the iconic Menninger clock tower in Topeka. It's now one step closer to being torn down.At a meeting of the Topeka Landmarks…

The landmark motion picture "The Learning Tree" turns 50 years old this year. Noted photographer Gordon Parks directed the movie, based off his 1963…

The Wizard of Oz, considered one of the most viewed films of all time, turns 80 this year.For the last 16 years, a tiny town in northeast Kansas has…

The Cosmosphere and Exploration Place will hold events this month to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.NASA astronauts Neil…

Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, France — the pivotal battle that changed the course of World War II.Much attention…

KMUW is turning 70 years old this week, so we decided to take a peek at what Wichita looked like in 1949, the year the station was born. Dr. Jay Price,…

Take a drive through the north side of Wichita and you might notice some new faces. They live on the walls of buildings, under bridges and on other…