Kansas Local Archive

The smell of fresh-cut grass on a Friday afternoon in Hutchinson means one thing: spring sports are back, and Kansas has a lot to say about it. From the western plains to the eastern suburbs, high school and collegiate athletes across the state are making the kind of noise that deserves more than a two-inch […]

Wichita didn’t wait for permission to recover. By the time February ended, retail activity across Sedgwick County had already outpaced projections, and the numbers coming out of Johnson County were telling the same story from a different zip code. Kansas is spending — not recklessly, but with the kind of grounded confidence that only shows […]