Cumulatively the drought map is showing signs of less stress in Plains each week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Mother Nature in July brought rain and storms to parts of the Plains, Regina Bird writes in her monthly column.

A bolt of lightning that arced across the sky from Texas to Kansas in the fall of 2017 has officially smashed the record for ...

A new music festival, Rock the Plains, is a week away and the event’s co-founder said tickets are limited. The Country ...

Kansas lawmakers slipped in a paragraph on page 254 of a Senate bill back in May, prohibiting any state agency from ...

Hikers on the Konza Prairie may look up this summer and see something unusual in the air. K-State researchers are employing ...

After West Plains' football team reached the state semifinals in 2024, expectations are high for the Wolves heading into the ...

Rock the Plains is bringing country, red dirt and Americana to Manhattan on the weekend of Aug. 8. For an entire weekend, ...

The restaurant, which has atmosphere to spare, turned 25 this year — quite a feat considering it’s in a town of less than 500.

Torrential rainfall from active thunderstorms is causing widespread flash flooding across a 1,000-mile stretch of the Plains and Midwest on Friday, with Kansas City particularly hard hit.

Health care leaders worry rural hospitals could be hit hard by Medicaid spending reductions in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." In the Midwest and Great Plains, Oklahoma and Kansas could face the ...

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the ...