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Check our their Ruel Joyce Recital before you hear and see them on Live Day October 25th! They are playing at the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium at noon. You can attend in person, or just listen on the radio. -
The theme of the 2024 season was FIRSTS. Here's Opening Night from Friday, June 21st with the SMF Chamber Orchestra directed by Antony Walker. -
Christopher Smith/For KFF Health NewsEight months after the Feb. 14 shooting, people wounded at the Kansas City Chiefs' victory parade are wary of more gun violence. In this installment of “The Injured,” survivors of the shooting say they feel gun violence is inescapable and are desperately seeking a sense of safety. -
Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga/Kansas News ServiceThe research center is part of the University of Kansas’ School of Social Welfare, where scholars will study health equity and access issues from a social worker's perspective. -
As the first year of KPR's Community Spotlight draws near to its end, we're eager to invite a new contingent of spotlighted non-profits for 2025! The Community Spotlight will continue to give recipients an opportunity to spread awareness using KPR’s airwaves each month. -
Author and scholar Mary Banwart discusses her new book chronicling the history of women in U.S. politics, with a newly penned foreword to Kamala Harris’ rise to Democratic presidential nominee.
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Kansas is one of the worst in the nation when it comes to drug-induced deaths for teens and young adults. Heidi Tomassi’s son is an overdose survivor and she’s sharing their story with Olathe kids in hopes it might change the approach to drug awareness. -
New research suggests silage has been overlooked as a substantial producer of nitrous oxide. A team at K-State figured out why – and a potential way to tackle the problem. -
We preview the Kansas congressional elections with Jonathan Shorman, lead political reporter with the Kansas City Star and moderator of the Dole Institute of Politics' fall election series. We'll also hear from Kansas Public Radio's Cordelia Brown and Destiny Ann Mermagen about KPR's upcoming Live Day. -
The son of Hallmark founder J.C. Hall and his wife Elizabeth, Donald J. Hall went on to serve as president and CEO of the company. He and his late wife Adele Hall donated their time and financial resources to many causes in Kansas City. -
The Lost Boys found themselves competing in a convention contest at the Lied Center of Lawrence hoping to ascend to the national competition in Denver in July of 2025.
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The indictment against Vikash Yadav points to a direct link between the Indian government and what prosecutors say was a murder-for-hire scheme on American soil. -
The August incident is under investigation by the police department's internal affairs division and is being reviewed by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. -
The suits will be used for NASA’s Artemis III mission, marking humankind’s first return to the moon since 1972. It will see the first woman and the first person of color walk on the moon. -
If the downward trend holds, this year is expected to be the first since 2020 to see overdose deaths fall below the 100,000 mark. However, Black and Native American communities remain vulnerable. -
An Arizona judge unsealed Gallego divorce filings Wednesday, rejecting efforts to keep the records hidden. Yet the filings did not offer the October surprise the Democratic Senate candidate's rival, Kari Lake, was hoping it would.
Brian Anderson talks with Conversations host Dan Skinner about the first two books in his new middle-grade humorous graphic novels, “Sophie: Jurassic Bark” and “Sophie: Frankenstein’s Hound.”
