Updated: 10:32 AM Kansas and Sedgwick County are making arraignments to take in evacuees if the need arises.

Updated: 9:09 PM New developments from the area hit hard by Katrina.

Updated: 9:11 AM An apartment fire in Southeast Wichita critically injures one man and six others suffer smoke inhalation.

Updated: 6:24 PM Katrina refugees are making their way into Kansas and there may be more on the way.

Updated: 11:04 AM KAKE is teaming up with the Jerry Lewis Telethon to help collect relief funds during our annual MDA Telethon on Labor Day.

Updated: 6:26 PM At least one person has been critically injured in an apartment fire in the 2200 block of South Oliver. Emergency dispatchers say more victims may have suffered from smoke inhalation. The fire broke out just after 11 Saturday night. We have crews on the scene and will have complete details on KAKE News Sunday.

Updated: 12:48 PM The Barger Family of Louisiana escaped Hurricane Katrina and is now being set up in a Wichita home. It's a showing of faith that means nine people are no longer homeless.

Updated: 12:51 PM A Wichita native just returned here to her Northwest Wichita home, after surviving dehydration, starvation and much more in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Deores Johnson's mother says the hardest part was the wait, because she didn't know if her daughter was dead or alive.

Updated: 3:07 PM Young children and mentally disabled adults who weren’t able to escape Hurricane Katrina come to Kansas.

Updated: 10:59 PM An entire city displaced and federal officials are telling Kansans to get ready to help.

Updated: 8:09 PM Local families are opening their homes to people who lost their homes in the hurricane.

Updated: 1:34 PM Benefits could include cash assistance, food stamps and medical care.

Updated: 10:15 AM Wichita Police investigating a body found in the Little Arkansas River.

Updated: 1:39 PM Boeing workers in Wichita are going out on strike for the first time since 1995.

Updated: 7:21 PM New developments in the case of Greenwood County sheriff killed in the line of duty.

Updated: 6:23 PM A rally leads to a heated argument between war supporters and opponents.

Updated: 6:22 PM Pumped up gas prices have some Kansas changing their driving habits.

Updated: 10:17 AM Three teenage Chaparral High School students were killed Wednesday afternoon when the car they were in went left of center and collided head-on with a Kansas Department of Transportation truck.

Updated: 12:55 AM Kansans are helping hurricane victims. If you want to make donations for the victims .. there are three ways to do so. You can call the American Red Cross at 1-800-HELP-NOW. Also the Salvation Army at 1-800-SAL-ARMY. Or you can visit the United Way's website at www-dot-united way-dot-org. And, the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon will appeal for money for hurricane victims as well as the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Updated: 6:23 PM Group books thousands and thousands of hotel rooms.

Updated: 1:53 PM Here's how you can help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Updated: 3:15 PM Kansas sending guard members and supplies to the region.

Updated: 8:29 AM A train derailment forces dozens of families to evacuate their homes, and closes an elementary school.

Updated: 12:25 AM Kansans with family in the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina are having trouble reaching their loved ones.

Updated: 10:12 PM Former Kansas University basketball player J.R. Giddens is charged for his alleged role in a stabbing at a Lawrence bar.