With the 52nd annual Dust Bowl basketball tournament set to tip off July 18, organizers have been working to build for the event’s present and future — while still paying tribute to its storied past.

Book lovers gathered at The Capitol Theatre to listen to a talk from award-winning author Lauren Tarshis.  Tarshis, most ...

The Great Depression was an era of financial toil for nearly everyone in the United States. But those in the Dust Bowl were hit particularly hard - the Southern plains region of the US experienced a ...

1. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns addresses this question and more in “The Dust Bowl,” a new two-part, four-hour documentary that airs at 7 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Wednesday on PBS (Time Warner Cable channels 12 and ...