wind energy

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...

Wind is beginning to challenge coal’s status as the primary energy source for electricity produced in Kansas.

Members of the group Keep Reno Heavenly showed a mix of emotions after the Reno County Commission denied NextEra Energy a permit to build a wind farm in...

Wind farms have been sprouting across Kansas horizons for nearly 20 years, planting ever-more-giant turbines capable of transforming breezes into clean...

Standing near the corner of his property in southeastern Reno County, Nick Egli looked east and pointed to the proposed locations for several 500-feet...

One morning after the next, semi-trailer trucks get off Interstate 70 near Colby in west-central Kansas. They haul parts of giant wind turbines in 150...

Wind scrapes across the plains of southwest Kansas like few places in the country. It drives a booming new industry of turbines that feeds electricity...

The Missouri Public Service Commission gave the green light Wednesday to allow a 780-mile wind-energy transmission line to be built across Missouri. The...

Waiting for psych bedsThe number of residential psychiatric wards in Kansas has dropped to 8 today from 17 in 2011 and now about a third as many beds are…

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…

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…

Campaigning for businessThe candidates for governor (let’s avoid “gubernatorial,” on principle) trotted to Wichita Tuesday night to sit for a Kansas…