Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Celia comes to the Kansas News Service after five years at the Topeka Capital-Journal. She brings in-depth experience covering schools and education policy in Kansas as well as news at the Statehouse. In the last year she has been diving into data reporting. At the Kansas News Service she will also be producing more radio, a medium she’s been yearning to return to since graduating from Columbia University with a master’s in journalism.
Celia also has a master’s degree in bilingualism studies from Stockholm University in Sweden. Before she landed in Kansas, Celia worked as a reporter for The American Lawyer in New York, translated Chinese law articles, and was a reporter and copy editor for the Taipei Times.
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At least three states have banned these trees outright, and others discourage the public from adding them to their yards. -
A changing climate looks poised to increase wildfire conditions significantly. That would compound other growing risks, such as the aggressive spread of eastern red cedars. -
States like North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana will have to deal with toxic blue-green algae blooms already common in Kansas. Utility companies will have to act fast to treat drinking water and keep it safe. -
About one-third of Overland Park's street trees are maples. Experts say cities must diversify their canopies, or pests will keep devastating them. -
Across the Midwest, some city codes threaten people with fines for having milkweed on their property. But experts say many places have dropped those rules to support monarchs with urban and suburban butterfly gardens. -
A new report from investigators in Kansas details decades of alleged sexual abuse by priests in Catholic churches in the state.
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Bison grazing on native prairie for three decades transformed the landscape, allowing wildflowers to thrive that can feed legions of bees and butterflies. -
What if jacuzzi-like water jets could save a lake or make sure reservoirs stay full of drinking water? Scientists in Kansas will test this as they work to prevent a reservoir from filling up with mud.
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In Kansas, some cattle are now wearing GPS trackers. It's part of a plan to see if invisible fences can help ranchers grow healthy grass while also protecting disappearing prairie birds.
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Lawmakers in Kansas want to change the state's constitution so abortion is not protected. Three other states — Tennessee, Alabama and West Virginia — have already changed their constitutions.
