southwest kansas

Installing fiber-optic internet in sparsely populated places like western Kansas is extremely expensive, even with government subsidies. But some smaller, local broadband providers are finding ways to make it work where the big national companies have not.

The transmission line known as the Grain Belt Express would deliver wind energy from southwest Kansas to other parts of the country — the equivalent of 15 million barrels of oil annually. Some landowners oppose a private company using eminent domain to complete its project.

Cotton growing is on the rise in Kansas, but it still only accounts for a small fraction of the state’s farm production. Now, a combination of global warming, dwindling water and new infrastructure might set the stage for southwest Kansas to become cotton country.

As the number of coyotes in Kansas grows, hunting contests have sprung up as a way to remove potential threats to livestock. But the resilient canine keeps finding ways to survive, no matter what humans throw at it.

Al suroeste de Kansas en un par de comunidades predominantemente hispanas, dos mujeres tratan de convertirse en las primeras latinas elegidas para un cargo local. Las elecciones celebradas a principios de este mes muestran que tan lejos han llegado las candidatas latinas tanto como las numerosas barreras a las que todavía se enfrentan.

In a pair of predominantly Hispanic southwest Kansas communities, two women try to become the first Latinas voted into local office. Elections earlier this month show both how far Latina candidates have come and how many barriers they still face.

Four decades after Garden City’s meatpacking boom began, the southwest Kansas town is still strained by growing pains. And its prosperity remains uneven.

Four decades ago, a town in Kansas and a town in Colorado competed to become home to a giant meatpacking plant that, at the time, was the largest of its kind in the world. Here’s what has happened to them since.

The union that represents Kansas meatpacking workers has launched a nationwide push to convince more of its members to get vaccinated against the COVID-19…