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A humanitarian group that helps refugees settle in western Kansas among plentiful slaughterhouse jobs is shutting down its office in the region amid...

The booming calls of the lesser prairie chicken once rung out across western Kansas.Accounts from the 1800s mention bands of hunters bagging dozens of…

At a Republican governor candidate forum in Garden City, Wednesday, former doctor Jim Barnett said expanding Medicaid would save lives and communities –…

John talks with musician Ben Harper. Next week, Mr. Harper releases his fifth album. It's a two-CD set of concert recordings called Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals: Live From Mars (Virgin Records America).

2: BEN KINGSLEY. He is the British actor who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film, "Ghandi." He's also known for his roles in "Bugsy," Schindler's List," "Sneakers," "Dave" "Searching for Bobby Fischer," "Species," and many more movies as well as plays. Kingsley was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court in London and the National Theatre. His new film is "Twelfth Night."

Artistic director for the Houston Ballet, Ben Stevenson. He's been with the ballet for over 25 years, turning it into a premiere dance company. The New York Times' dance critic said of Stevenson, (he) "is one of the most original figures in the development of regional ballet in America." Stevenson's own choreography for the Houston ballet include the full length works: Swan Lake, Cinderella, Peer Gynt, Dracula, and Cleopatra. Stevenson is a native of Britian.

Flying east to west over Kansas, the land transforms from lush green to desert brown. Rectangular farm plots fill in with emerald circles, the work of…

A new, widely debated federal mandate requires truckers to electronically track the number of hours they’re on the road — a rule that’s meant to make...

In this episode, Molly Hatesohl remembers her time at Topeka High School, and the shadow Ben Lerner casts over Topeka history. Click here to read the full essay

Writer BEN HAMPER. His funny first-person account of working in GM's auto factory is "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line" (Warner Books). HAMPER is a third generation auto worker in Flint, Michigan. He first started writing when he submitted articles to the alternative newspaper, "The Flint Voice." The editor then was Michael Moore, who made the documentary "Roger and Me." Hamper appeared in Moore's documentary and also in the short lived TV program "TV Nation." In 1995 he appeared in "Canandian Bacon," a film starring John Candy. Last year, he moved from the factory town of Flint to Sutton's Bay, MI. (Rebroadcast, originally aired 8/19/91.