The Kansas City Kansan is an online newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 that serves Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

 and other towns in Wyandotte County

Wyandotte County, Kansas

Wyandotte County is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The county's population was 157,505 for the 2010 census. Its county seat and most populous city is Kansas City with which it shares a unified government...

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History

Arthur Capper

Arthur Capper

Arthur Capper was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th Governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and a United States Senator from 1919 to 1949....

 started the newspaper January 31, 1921. At the time Kansas City, Kansas did not have a daily newspaper while neighboring Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 had three dailies -- the Kansas City Journal-Post

Kansas City Journal-Post

The Kansas City Journal-Post was a newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri from 1854 to 1942 which was the oldest newspaper in the city when it folded....

, Kansas City Times

Kansas City Times

The Kansas City Times was a morning newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri, that was published from 1867 to 1990.The morning Kansas City Times, under ownership of afternoon The Kansas City Star, won two Pulitzer Prizes and was actually bigger than its parent when its name was changed to the...

 and Kansas City Star.

At its peak in the 1960s, the daily paid circulation topped 34,000. It also operated KCKN-AM 1340
Radio. (See Wikipedia; "KCKN (defunct)" for station history.

It published daily (except Sundays, Mondays, and major holidays). Near the end of its print publication, the paper converted from a daily to a twice-weekly publication.
Since January 10, 2009, the Kansan has been an online-only publication.
On September 19th, Nick Sloan, a Kansas City, Kan., resident, purchased the Kansan and is now the independent owner of the publication.