earthquakes

The earthquakes that have shaken south-central Kansas in recent years look to be natural, but a deeper dive is underway to see if they're related to oil and gas drilling in the region.

WICHITA, Kansas — On Aug. 16, the second day of the school year, students in the Burrton district felt the shake of a 4.2 magnitude earthquake. They...

New research out of Stanford University shows that limiting wastewater injection is helping to prevent man-made earthquakes in Kansas and Oklahoma. The...

When a ban might not be a banLegislators set out this year to make telemedicine more practical in Kansas. They drafted a law that would force insurance…

Fill ’er upPavement wears down at the same rate whether the cars and trucks rolling over it rely on internal combustion engines for locomotion or on…

MKGAOn the eve of the Kansas Republican primary for governor, President Donald Trump tweeted his endorsement of Secretary of State Kris Kobach.Little more…

A decade ago, Kansans felt an earthquake once every few years. Now ground tremors come regularly. One of the hardest hit areas is Harper County in the…

Kansas regulators have found that more than one thousand applications for new wastewater disposal wells failed to give the required 30-day public notice…

Zack Pistora of the Kansas Sierra Club was worried about the number of earthquakes in the state and wanted to do something about it.“Those earthquakes can…

Saltwater injection. Fracking. Enhanced oil recovery.News of protests in recent months against oil- and gas-related activity in the Flint Hills has drawn…

Kansas’ energy-regulating agency is trying to determine why permits were issued for half a dozen wastewater wells whose operators didn’t accurately inform…

The governments of Douglas County and Lawrence are calling for changes to Kansas regulations amid an energy company’s proposal to pump wastewater into…