Discover everything about Kansas, the Sunflower State, including its history as a battleground during the Civil War, its ...

Schlitz was a billion-dollar empire battling Budweiser to be No. 1. Then a bribery scandal—and a lot of foul, sludgy ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event ...

The Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school this year gave volunteers a chance to dig into the state's territorial history at the site of an 1850s-era mansion near Lecompton.

Chiefs Kingdom keeps expanding. Part 3 highlights Springfield, Tulsa, St. Louis, and Des Moines—cities where Mahomes mania ...

This interactive map shows where the heaviest rain fell as storms moved through the Kansas City area on Monday.

L.B. Cole depicts a scene from the Kansas City Massacre on the cover of All-Famous Police Cases #8, for a story on the career of organized crime's Johnny Lazia.

Measles cases in the U.S. are at a 33-year high, and while Kansas has recently seen a decline in new outbreaks, 90 cases have been confirmed across the state this year. The state still has several ...

We were motoring along a leafy stretch of road in rural Alabama that my mother-in-law has dubbed “the valley of death.” Along ...

Kansas City rainfall: See how much rain fell across the metro, including Northland and Wyandotte County, with detailed 24-hour storm data.

Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...