Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long grass bears the weight of snow in this Jan. 8, 2024, photo taken in Emporia. Long grass bears the weight of snow in this Jan.

The land that is now Kansas was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Before European settlement, the area was home to numerous Native American tribes for thousands of years. The 1854 ...

They’d lived through a bitter conflict between Jayhawkers and border ruffians, and one between the North and the South. They’d seen the bloody birth of a state — and the breakup and reconstruction of ...

John Daniels, Jr., 55, said he was happy to weigh in on a proposed Northeast Kansas City, Kansas, Heritage Trail. He also said he's been hearing about projects to improve northeast Kansas City, Kansas ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Fresh off a three-year remodel, the Kansas Museum of History is ready to welcome visitors to celebrate the day they celebrate every day! Trae Johnson visited Eye on NE Kansas to ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas history has never been more alive than it is now in the hands of students and historians devoted to putting the pieces of the past together through hours of painstaking ...

Kansans often take pride in free state origins, but what happened in Hays is but one example of its sometimes violent racial history. HAYS, Kansas — On the night of Jan. 6, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee ...