When photographer Jim Richardson first pitched National Geographic Magazine on a story about his home state of Kansas, his ...

The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department issued an Air Quality Advisory on Tuesday due to smoke from controlled burning ...

The prairie fires, usually in March and April, are used to manage the tallgrass prairie, but the resulting smoke can affect air quality. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently shared ...

Just under 100,000 acres have been burned areawide so far this burn season, a sharp increase from the nearly 17,500 acres burned as of March 20. Across the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma, the ...

Quik Trip is the only business to occupy that address, but Ubert says Quik Trip typically brings other business near its ...

Lincoln was put into an air quality advisory Tuesday due to smoke from controlled burning in the Flint Hills region of Kansas ...

Farmers and ranchers use controlled or prescribed burns to enhance native grasslands as well as reduce fuel loads that ultimately reduces wildfire risk.

who was given the title of the Flint Hills Balladeer by former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. In a story about his death, Rex Buchanan, a writer and former director of the Kansas Geological Survey ...

His iconic work on the Flint Hills put Kansas in the national spotlight. Jim Richardson had a distinguished career making images for National Geographic Magazine stories on cultural, environmental ...

Gary Bergstrom, the department's air quality section supervisor, said the smoke in Lincoln may reach levels that are ...