The Heat

The Heat

It's hot. High temperatures and a lack of rain have brought about the country's widest-ranging drought since the 1950s. The entire state of Missouri has been declared a federal disaster area, along with 82 counties in Kansas. Crops are struggling to survive, and so are cattle farmers who can't feed their livestock.

Community

'I’ll Take Winter Any Day': Homeless Man Says Bitter Cold Is Easier To Endure Than This Heat

Laura Ziegler

You’d never pick him out as someone who’d been camping in the Johnson County woods for the last year.We met at an Olathe library, one of the many cooling…
News

Garden City Community College Releases First Information About Death Of A Football Player

Sam Zeff

Garden City Community College has broken its silence and released a summary of an internal investigation into the death of a New Jersey football player…
News

Pressure Builds On Kansas Community College Over Football Player's Death

Sam Zeff

It has been eight months since 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth collapsed and died after a football workout at Garden City Community College (GCCC).Since…
Missouri's drought has lessened, but farmers still struggle

Marshall Griffin

Despite recent rainfall, more than half of Missouri is still in a drought, hitting hard at one of the state’s key economic engines: agriculture....
Agriculture

Experts: Missouri’s Widespread Drought Expected to Get Worse

Missouri officials considered ways to step up drought response Thursday, the same day the U.S. Drought Monitor said more than 2.5 million people are being…
Drought Deepens In Missouri, Plains States; Ranchers Trim Herds

Erica Hunzinger

Updated at 8:40 p.m. July 19 to correct numbers in 2nd paragraph — There are few places better to see the effects of an intensifying drought than a...