Garden City

Federal immigration enforcement moved through western Kansas and detained several people. It comes after President Donald Trump promised deportations of people in the country without legal status. Southwest Kansas has a high percentage of immigrants.

Anxiety has spread through southwest Kansas after policy promises of mass deportations from the Trump administration. That mental exhaustion is now part of the daily lives of Kansans in an area where immigrants are a large part of the population.

Community colleges across Kansas have seen dorms filling up weeks before classes start. In the southwest part of the state, for example, on-campus housing was at capacity several weeks ahead of orientation. Students who live far from their schools say living on campus is a good way to meet people and integrate into college life.

The NCAA's report alleges violations by Missouri Southern State University and coach Jeff Sims, who started at MSSU after the death of a player while he was head coach at Garden City Community College.

In 2016, a plot to kill hundreds of Somali Muslim immigrants in southwest Kansas was foiled by an unlikely hero.

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.

COVID-19 hit Kansas meatpacking plants particularly hard during the pandemic. Now some workers are proving hesitant about getting vaccinated against the coronavirus.

A pesar de que mucho del país se anima a la posibilidad de vacunarse, grupos considerables quedan sin convencerse aún. En las comunidades de migrantes y refugiados en el suroeste de Kansas, las barreras culturales y el acceso a la vacuna podrían dejar abandonados a los más vulnerables.

The passenger rail service may eventually come to Wichita and offer service south to Oklahoma.

The hard job of winning over people who have unfounded fears about the #COVID-19 vaccine — including your mom.

Statistics suggest Hispanic communities lag in access to the potentially life-saving coronavirus vaccines.