A big plume of dirt and smoke ... just now moving into our area,” he said around 3:35 p.m., adding visibility would continue to get worse for the next few hours. The 61 mph g ...

The fire danger has also prompted fire crews across the state to prepare. That prep work includes contacting other states to ask if they can help. There is also massive coordination in the state to ...

Governor Laura Kelly issued a state of disaster emergency proclamation Thursday morning due to increased fire weather conditions lasting throughout the weekend.

The combination of low humidity and high winds is driving up the fire danger across the state. Two departments battled one grass fire in Butler County, which consumed more than 50 acres of land this ...

If you see a large police presence Tuesday around Century II, don’t be alarmed. Wichita police, along with several other law ...

Firefighters from Sedgwick and Butler counties had to put out a grass fire northeast of Wichita Monday afternoon.

Allan B. Kari, 48, was sentenced to 233 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections for kidnapping a Lansing Correctional ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Wichita Fire Department is sponsoring a contest to get ideas from the public on a name ...

Courtesy photo Wichita Fire Department Wichita firefighters had ... during his seven-plus years of working at newspapers in Kansas. He finished his MBA at Wichita State University in spring ...

WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING HERE AS KANSAS ... fire, the body of Dwayne Blair, 64, was discovered. Police were notified that Blair was suffering from a gunshot wound. A ...

A vacant church fire in Kansas City, Missouri earlier this month that left a man dead is now being investigated as a homicide. According to the Kansas City Police Department, officers responded to ...

The Kansas City Fire Department is investigating after a house fire left one person hospitalized and pets dead. Firefighters responded to the 2600 block of McKinley around 12:30 p.m. Monday.