WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Wichita Animal Shelter and Kansas Humane Society adopt out pets every day. But some may never find homes because they are sick. “I have never seen this much parvo coming into the shelter as I have this year,” says Lt. Derek Purcell, supervisor of Wichita Animal Services. Both shelters are […]
High schools in the greater Wichita area continue to offer strong academics, according to a new educational ranking. Education review website Niche recently released its rankings for 2024, and schools in the Maize, Andover and Wichita districts were among the top five best public high schools in the Wichita metro area. Two Wichita-area private schools […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A church in south Wichita could get repurposed to help people in need, but not everyone is on board. “Because I have kids that live here, and I really don’t want them that close to my house,” said Brandi Hernandez, who lives about a block from the proposed site. The site […]
A 36-year-old Wichita man is facing a felony charge of unlawful gun possession for allegedly picking up a handgun following the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally at Union Station on Wednesday, according to court documents. The Jackson County Prosecutor has charged Jose L. Castillo with one count of unlawful possession […]
Four Wichita elementary schools and two middle schools would be closed under a proposal considered by the school board Monday evening. Clark, Park, Payne and Cleaveland Traditional Magnet elementary schools would be shuttered, along with Hadley and Jardine Magnet middle school. The closures would affect 2,213 students, 132 teachers and 190 other staff. Students would […]
Over the 10 years, from 2012-2022, the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has performed somewhat lackluster on a number of demographic and economic indicators. In this piece, we present an analysis of trends for the local MSA relative to other MSAs in Texas, as well as with the state as a whole. The Wichita […]
A 40-year-old Wichita woman had minor injuries after she hit an officer driving with lights and sirens to a 911 call early Saturday morning in west Wichita, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The woman was taken to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis. She was listed in stable condition around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The 27-year-old […]
More than 60 years ago, eight young African American students living in segregated Wichita, Kansas stood up for their rights by sitting down at the Dockum drugstore counter where only white people were served, according to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). ALSO READ: Charlotte-area Black History Month events, programs Over the next three […]
In a previous post, Drs. Martinez and Manley noted that future economic progress in the local region – the Wichita Falls metro area (MSA) – would increasingly come to depends on promoting quaternary activities (i.e., investments in human capital) as an economic development strategy. Specifically, the authors argued that what was needed was an internally […]
Wichita in January, like much of Kansas, saw a lot of snow and rain along with frigid temperatures. But, just how cold was it, and what should we expect for February and spring? Wichita saw four records set in January: two for the coldest high on Jan. 14 and Jan. 15, with 6 and 7 […]
A jury found a 43-year-old Wichita man — who previously had spent about 20 years in prison for murder — guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 Christmas Eve killing of his girlfriend. Jurors, on Friday, deliberated for just over 4.5 hours before finding Ahmad Khaasanouva Bey guilty of the murder charge and criminal possession […]
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook central Oklahoma late Friday night and was felt from Kansas to Texas, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey said. More than 15,000 people reported the quake to USGS, including numerous reports from south central Kansas, said geophysicist Randy Baldwin at the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado. “It was […]