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Overview
The Wichita Eagle is Kansas' largest newspaper, and the Kansas City Star across the state line covers Johnson and Wyandotte counties. The Topeka Capital-Journal covers the Statehouse, the Lawrence Journal-World covers Douglas County and the University of Kansas, and the Hutchinson News, the Salina Journal, the Garden City Telegram, the Hays Daily News, the Manhattan Mercury, the Emporia Gazette and the Pittsburg Morning Sun cover their regions. The Kansas Reflector covers state government online.
Kansas newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for sheriff's sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 105 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the Kansas courts' online case search.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Kansas Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Kansas. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Kansas newspapers and what they cover
The Eagle covers Wichita, Sedgwick County and the aviation industry, with back issues from the 1870s onward in the digital archives. The Capital-Journal covers state government, the Kansas Supreme Court and the federal court in Topeka, and the Journal-World covers Lawrence with an archive that is fully digitized. The Hutchinson News covers Reno County and the state fair, the Garden City Telegram covers southwest Kansas and the meatpacking towns, and the Hays Daily News covers the northwest. County weeklies such as the Marion County Record, the Clay Center Dispatch and the Anderson County Review carry county commission minutes, sheriff's reports and district court filings.
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Historic Kansas newspapers online
The Kansas Historical Society in Topeka holds one of the most complete state newspaper collections in the country, with nearly every Kansas newspaper ever published on microfilm, and it has digitized much of it in partnership with Newspapers.com, free to Kansas residents through the Society's website. Kansas titles from the territorial era onward also appear in Chronicling America. The Wichita Public Library provides free access to the Eagle archive with a library card.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Kansas
Kansas law requires sheriff's sale notices, notices to creditors in probate, name changes, tax sales and county and city notices to be published in the official county newspaper, and the Kansas Press Association collects them in a statewide search. The dailies and most weeklies in Kansas publish obituaries, and the Kansas Historical Society's newspaper collection is the standard source for older deaths. Court coverage pairs with the Kansas eCourt portal for district court cases.
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Straight answers
Kansas Newspaper Directory, questions
What is the largest newspaper in Kansas?
The Wichita Eagle, with the Kansas City Star covering the Kansas suburbs, the Topeka Capital-Journal covering the Statehouse and the Lawrence Journal-World covering Douglas County.
Where can I read old Kansas newspapers free?
The Kansas Historical Society holds nearly every Kansas newspaper ever published and provides free digitized access to Kansas residents through its website, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are Kansas sheriff's sale notices published?
In the official county newspaper, collected in the Kansas Press Association's statewide public notice search.