The sirens are not a signal to evacuate but a warning to tune to a local emergency alert broadcast television or radio station.

So far, Sedgwick County and the City of Wichita together have received over $ 5 million and they need to figure out what to do with the money. On Tuesday, the Wichita City Council and Sedgwick ...

Sedgwick County operates 153 sirens across the county ... you can see the polygon on the map and the exact same spot on every channel that you switch to, that polygon is [activated] by the ...

More than a year after tornadoes devastated Sharkey County, new weather sirens are being installed this week.The Sharkey County Emergency Management Agency said three new outdoor warning sirens are ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The sirens people depend on to stay safe from severe weather are getting an upgrade in Sedgwick County. In the countywide process, Sedgwick County Emergency Management ...

The county had been searching for a new election office home since 2018. Sedgwick County has a site for state-run psychiatric hospital The downtown building set to fill a local mental health ...

Larned is one of two state mental hospitals in Kansas. Sedgwick County commissioners have approved a location for a third hospital in south Wichita. The new hospital will be on the northwest ...

SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KAKE) - Sedgwick County residents are eligible for a free coupon to dispose of up to 1,000 pounds of waste. Sedgwick County Environmental Resources says all residents of ...

The zones are depicted in a color-coded map. “For the next five years, if a polygon touches any part of the color-coded zone, all sirens within that zone will activate,” Sedgwick County explained.

Shawnee County officials have the technology ... of drawing a polygon on a computer screen map to arrange for sirens to sound only in the warned area. Nichols told The Capital-Journal last May ...

After a federal jury awarded her more than $8 million for her alleged sexual assault at the hands of the former Sedgwick County sheriff, Peattina Biggs, a woman with developmental disabilities ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Sedgwick County is looking for people to adopt a siren. The person would be a siren observer for one of 152 outdoor warning sirens in the county. The sirens are tested ...