Kansas farmers could soon play a role in spaghetti night or be the source of macaroni salad for the community cook out. More Kansas farmers are testing out a new breed of the durum wheat species milled into semolina flour used in pasta. Kansas State University released the new variety, and ...
For almost 50 years, the eastern edge of Lawrence was home to a plant that helped fuel America’s agricultural boom. Today, there’s been a lot of activity at the former nitrogen plant site. It is being transformed into an industrial park and a future city campus — but beneath the new ...
When Indigenous poet c. huffman and history professor Tai S. Edwards began working on a book describing the return of In‘zhúje‘waxóbe from Lawrence to the Kaw Nation, they did not know exactly who would make the cut. Edwards and huffman had been a part of the Sacred Red Rock project, a ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A police shooting in Wisconsin's progressive capital city this week put the spotlight on persistent and deep racial divisions, prompting cancellations and other changes to popular summertime events as protesters said they were determined to continue public pressure for ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Temperatures hit sweltering highs across much of the central United States on Saturday as forecasters warned that dangerously hot weather from Dallas to North Dakota would push into next week, with roughly 80 million people facing heat advisories. A heat dome, where ...
MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) — As water shot into an open stock tank atop a high country mesa, a trickle soaked the dusty earth below. Scott Snyder rose from the shade to fasten a hose and stop the spillage. "It's just so much work. I hate dropping any of it," said Snyder, who operates Mex and Sons ...
