On a blistering August afternoon, Stephanie stands itching her legs in the heat at the Sedgwick County Zoo. As a three-ton, 54-year old African elephant, leg scratching can be quite the balancing act. That’s no matter to the comparatively small, 400-pound Kijani. The four-month-old male ...
Kansas State University scientists are enlisting the help of artificial intelligence in the effort to conserve what’s left of North America’s shrinking grasslands. Zak Ratajczak, an assistant professor and grassland biologist, says K-State scientists have trained a computer model to map in ...
TOPEKA — Christine English-Baird spends at least one day a week distributing basic supplies to homeless people in Wichita, home to one of Kansas’ largest homeless populations. “I do that because I can’t even fathom anybody else going through what I did,” English-Baird said. ...
The six members of the Kansas congressional delegation urged President Donald Trump on Monday to approve the governor’s request for federal assistance to help the state recover from damaging weather in early June. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Aug. 6 asked for a disaster declaration after ...
TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and cattle industries. In a decision last week from a Texas federal court, the lesser ...
TOPEKA — Firefighters responded to an overnight fire outside headquarters of the Johnson County Republican Party in Overland Park that resulted in no injuries last week, but the incident inspired inflammatory comments by the leader of the Kansas GOP, who placed responsibility on liberals. In ...