Klaira Gayle Hayes, 17, was recently crowned Senior Miss Dance America at Revolution Dance Competition in Wichita. Klaira has danced competitively since the age of 2 at her mother’s dance studio, Spotlight Dance Academy, in…

The U.S. government has admitted liability in the deadly crash involving an American Airlines flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., earlier this year. In a court filing Wednesday, the Justice Department admitted that failures by…

TOPEKA — The Wichita area reported its first case of measles on Wednesday, an announcement that moves this highly contagious disease out of rural southwest Kansas counties and into a major metropolitan area. Kansas is…

A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb in Wichita said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane manufacturing plant across the street has created “a blight…

Health care providers in Sedgwick County are preparing for the potential return of measles to the area for the first time in nearly a decade. An outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory virus in Kansas…

When residents of Wichita’s 29th and Grove neighborhood were told their groundwater was contaminated by carcinogens, it wasn’t just an environmental disaster — it was a breach of trust. It shook the foundation that communities…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is significantly restricting helicopter traffic in the immediate vicinity of Washington Reagan National Airport, according to an official briefed on the matter. The decision was made following…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a…

WICHITA — A former Kansas Board of Regents member who made the motion to hire Wichita State University President Richard Muma says concerns over plagiarism in Muma’s doctoral dissertation illustrate the need to thoroughly evaluate…

Two former Wichita chiropractors and brothers have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud that resulted in federal payments of $3.7 million. Bradley Eck, 54 and Todd Eck 58, both from Wichita, are alleged…