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Early next year, Carnegie libraries across the U.S. will receive a $10,000 gift in honor of the nation's 250th anniversa...
12/02/2025

Early next year, Carnegie libraries across the U.S. will receive a $10,000 gift in honor of the nation's 250th anniversary. The library in Peabody, which serves as a lifeline for the community, has not yet decided how it will use the money.

Efforts in Barton County may offer a blueprint for solving a housing shortage across Kansas. The county commission has t...
12/01/2025

Efforts in Barton County may offer a blueprint for solving a housing shortage across Kansas. The county commission has tapped economic development funds and other resources to help housing developments in three communities.

KMUW General Manager Debra Fraser will be serving complimentary hot cocoa from 4 to 6 p.m. this evening during the Old T...
11/29/2025

KMUW General Manager Debra Fraser will be serving complimentary hot cocoa from 4 to 6 p.m. this evening during the Old Town Carriage Rides near the Christmas tree in Old Town Square! (She'll be the elf with plenty of marshmallows!)

For a time, more than 60 libraries in Kansas carried the name of one man: Andrew Carnegie. The Scottish-American industr...
11/28/2025

For a time, more than 60 libraries in Kansas carried the name of one man: Andrew Carnegie. The Scottish-American industrialist spent his final years funding library projects across the country. When he died in 1919, the connection with Carnegie’s foundation largely ended. That is until earlier this year, when the Kansas libraries still bearing Carnegie’s name learned of a new gift.

Kansas has plenty of trees. Cottonwoods and elms, osage orange and ash. But as Beccy Tanner explains in this encore segment of “Hidden Kansas,” we have only one “Lucky Tree.”

You can listen to “The Range” wherever you find podcasts.

11/27/2025

“Global Village,” “Strange Currency” and “Night Train” have a feast in store for Thanksgiving with songs about food on our musical menu, tonight from 7 to midnight.

In his first interview since being accused of voting illegally by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, Joe Ceballos, a s...
11/27/2025

In his first interview since being accused of voting illegally by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, Joe Ceballos, a self-described loyal Republican voter, contends he thought he could vote as a legal permanent resident. His friends and high school teacher worry they’re partly to blame.

Work at Wichita's new water treatment plant is on hold because of mechanical failures. The project, now estimated to cos...
11/26/2025

Work at Wichita's new water treatment plant is on hold because of mechanical failures. The project, now estimated to cost $574 million, broke ground at 21st and Hoover in 2020 and has been plagued with delays.

Work at Wichita's new water treatment plant is on hold because of mechanical failures. The project, now estimated to cos...
11/26/2025

Work at Wichita's new water treatment plant is on hold because of mechanical failures. The project, now estimated to cost $557 million, broke ground at 21st and Hoover in 2020 and has been plagued with delays.

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