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At a meeting today (FRI) in Washington, a top Homeland Security official said budget cuts are forcing the department to re-evaluate plans for NBAF, the federal animal disease lab, in Manhattan. More from Kansas Public Radio’s Bryan Thompson.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa74a6c0000

KU aerospace engineering students have, once again, won a First Place award in an international aircraft design competition. The "Screaming Dingo" aircraft design took top honors in late 2016.

Kansas State Wildcats Football Stadium (Flickr Photo by USDAgov)For the first time in school history, Kansas State’s football team is ranked number one in the nation in the BCS poll. The top ranking came last (SUN) night, following the Wildcats’ weekend win over TCU. The top two teams in the final BCS poll will meet in the national championship game in January. K-State fans are excited because there are only two games left in the regular season. But, as KPR’s Greg Echlin reports, it will likely be “business as usual” in the office of K-State Coach Bill Snyder.

Nearly 7,000 independent artists submitted to this year's Tiny Desk Contest. Meet the Sacramento artist that rose to the top.

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

A year after releasing an award-winning album that touched on deeply personal subject matter, Kwenders looks back on his origins in Central Africa, and his path as a musician.

Opposition parties in Africa's largest democracy are crying foul and calling for fresh elections in Nigeria, citing claims of vote rigging.

Gertrude Abercrombie was a bohemian midcentury painter whose surrealist paintings, newly coveted by collectors, are now touring museums as part of the show "Supernatural America."

U.S. charities have received close to $2 billion to help in Haiti since the earthquake two years ago. But it's not easy to determine exactly how all that money is being spent and what kind of impact it is having.

Stereophonic, a new play on Broadway with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, tracks the volatile creation of a rock and roll album over the course of a year in the 1970s.