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Jack Wilson is an artist who faced a life-changing ALS diagnosis that threatened his creative career. Refusing to be defined by his illness, Wilson adapted his artistic methods.

The 2nd annual Downtown Wichita Window Wonderland holiday window decorating contest has begun. KMUW's Carla Eckels talks to one local artist who is vying for the big prize with a window display for Cargill.

Health care for some immigrants was stripped away more than three months ago when President Donald Trump rescinded a rule that offered health care plans to people who migrated to the U.S. as children.

CoreCivic applied this week to receive a special use permit from Leavenworth to reopen its prison as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee center, called the Midwest Regional Reception Center. A federal judge previously called CoreCivic's facility "an absolute hell hole."

University of Kansas Medical Center nephrologist Dr. Jason Stubbs thinks his research could help millions of Americans who are living with chronic kidney disease, but he's still waiting to hear if the National Institutes of Health will fund his latest grant application.

After firing the business leaders who accepted a federal contract to design immigration detention facilities, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's chairperson compared such sites to Native American reservations.

Wichita musician David Lord recorded his last four albums in Los Angeles. For his latest record, Way Over The Rainbow, he worked primarily in Wichita. The album also marks the launch of his new record label, Cloud Ear, which he says will focus on recordings made by musicians in Kansas and Chicago.

This week on "The Range," we discover the backstory of a football jersey that’s hung in Tom Shine's closet for more than 50 years.

In August, federal immigration agents arrested Julio Rojas without a warrant and deported him without a hearing, leaving him separated from his young son. Court records show his only interaction with the law was a traffic ticket in 2018, which he paid off.

A Kansas judge sided with Attorney General Kris Kobach that state law does not allow the quarter-cent public safety sales tax to be extended for the uses Johnson County commissioners wanted. The county will formally withdraw their resolution to put the question on the March ballot.