Kansas Day is celebrated each year on Jan. 29, marking the day Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861 as the 34th state.

Wintry conditions may have altered local plans to celebrate Kansas’ birthday, but it did not cancel them outright as the Lyon ...

The Gibbon Heritage Center Museum displays artifacts from the Civil War to present day, and even features a veterans wall honoring military service members from the community.

More than 19,000 naked baby dolls at varying stages of fetal development were splayed on tables Wednesday in the heart of the ...

Some Minnesotans worry that President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying federal troops would only escalate tensions among protesters in the state. “If Trump deploys the federal ...

This Day in History - January 4: committee reports to the U.S. Senate a bill creating the Kansas-Nebraska Act January 4, 1854 - A bill introduced by Sen. Stephen Douglas in January, 1854, divided the ...

In the immediate aftermath of Kansas women’s volleyball’s NCAA tournament loss in mid-December against Nebraska, KU coach Matt Ulmer praised the winning side. Ulmer highlighted Cornhuskers coach Dani ...

The Kansas Territory, created in 1854, originally extended west to the Rocky Mountains. Kansas gave up its western land, which is now part of Colorado, upon achieving statehood in 1861. The 1858 Pikes ...

A rumor that Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "If [U.S. President Donald] Trump had been president during the Civil War, we would've won it," circulated online in December 2025. For example, one ...

Cassie Lapaseotes made a mistake that nearly made her a felon: running afoul of Nebraska’s cattle-branding rules. Lapaseotes was accused of not having a bill of sale for about 460 of her own calves ...

Longfellow's son, Charley, went on to become a world traveler and author after his brief career as a soldier. (NPS) Charles Appleton Longfellow was the oldest child of American poet and writer Henry ...