HPPR Spotlight Stories
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As newspapers around the country close and consolidate, a printing press in Liberal, Kansas, is a lifeline for local media in the region.
High Plains regional news
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The EPA set its first-ever drinking water limits for five types of PFAS chemicals, and nearly 50 of Texas public water systems have reported exceeding the new limits for at least one. North Texas cities include Arlington, Grapevine, Fort Worth and Dallas. -
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will be fined $100,000 a day until it comes into compliance on two remedial court orders. -
Light pollution reduces the visibility of stars creating navigation issues for birds passing through. But it's not only a navigation issue. -
The high court declined to hear a Louisiana case involving a police officer who was injured during a 2016 protest and sued its organizer. -
House and Senate leadership unveiled details on a proposal punishing people for entering and remaining in the state without legal permission Thursday, and they want to create a new crime to try and combat illegal immigration.
Happenings across the High Plains
Regional Features
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Despite your best efforts, some of your gardening efforts can be partly or fully undone by pests or environmental issues in your neighbors'yards. But you can use their struggles to help prepare for, and prevent, such issues taking root in your gardens and yard, and we'll talk about how in this week's episode! -
I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club.Today I’ll be sharing some poetry, all tangentially connected to our spring theme of “Water, Water, Neverwhere.” I’ve included poems from famous poets as well as those from poets on the High Plains.
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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)/Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, thinking about Plainwater, a multilayered work from early in the career of Anne Carson, a writer pegged as a contender for a Nobel. -
In this week's High Plains Outdoors Luke talks about a recent close to home hog home where he shot a tasty 40-pound pig and immediately put the meat on the smoker to cook all night at low temperature and the next morning turn his harvest into some very tasty Guisado.
NPR Top Stories
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Guns are now the leading cause of death among American children. And many more children are injured in shootings, putting them at risk for life-altering disability, pain, and mental trauma.
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