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On a sweltering summer morning, Rob Mitchell surveys a plot of switchgrass at a research field near Lincoln, Nebraska. The grass is lush, green and nearly…

Westar Energy faces a challenge — or at least it’s anticipating a challenge — in the growing number of Kansas homes sporting solar panels on their…

In the 1930s, rural electric cooperatives brought electricity to the country’s most far-flung communities, transforming rural economies. In Western…

Even as wind energy production has grown in recent years to be a large part of the country’s energy portfolio, a chill around federal funding for…

It’s not exactly unusual for customers to complain about their electricity bills. But repeated rate hikes over the past decade have made Westar Energy’s...

Wichita — Kansas is a national leader in wind energy, but a new report shows the state lags in the adoption of other so-called green technologies. Find...

Yellow umbrellas dotted a field outside Farley Elementary School in Topeka on Tuesday, even though there was no rain.About 50 people standing in a…

Aging out into problemsA new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation looking at what happens to older children in foster care shows Kansas roughly…

If you’ve got solar panels on your roof, Westar Energy wants to create a surcharge on your power bill.The utility insists that if it doesn’t charge you…

Kansas’ largest utility company this week agreed to cut a proposed rate increase nearly in half and split off a controversial solar energy element for…