I learned a great deal about how to live in an integrated community, and that helped me succeed in life.
Speeding ticket in Texas leads to six-month incarceration on 10-year-old warrant for dropped charge.
Nikki Ramirez-Jennings wants to transform the reputation of a southeast Topeka community known to outsiders for its crime and poverty.
Kansas Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop charged with DUI and felony fleeing.
Today so much of Kansas is privately owned that there are few places where one can actually get out and walk on Kansas.
The American Civil Liberties Union’s five-year legal battle over voter rights are asking to be repaid for “grossly excessive” fees.
Here we are, friends, partway through the Kansas Legislature’s annual session.
Here is how Kansas is doing compared to other states in the race to vaccinate residents.
A second Kansas House bill would remove exceptions for child marriages.
The House Agriculture Committee heard about how Black farmers have faced decades of racial discrimination in their dealings with USDA.
Gov. Laura Kelly announced Kansas will make COVID-19 vaccines available to all adults starting next week.
Democratic governor signs bill granting Legislature new oversight power.
Alterations touch on countywide bans, licensing caps and ad limits.
A renewed effort by Gov. Laura Kelly to form a single Kansas agency overseeing social welfare programs was rejected on the House floor.
President Joe Biden blasted Republican-controlled state legislatures that are seeking to restrict voting access.
Kansas legislators worry about the ‘vile, racist’ connection.
Procedural dispute exposes sentiment on racism, hypocrisy.
Skeptics consider dash-for-cash House bill to be unwarranted.
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Tucked in the Democrats’ massive coronavirus stimulus package was a long-awaited solution for a financial ticking time bomb.
More than 60 ask Legislature to assuage turbine-driven despair.
Police have a suspect in custody.
It was a Friday in late February at the Lawrence–Douglas County Health Department’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Opponents expressed a need to look at all variables on using federal aid to compensate Kansas businesses impacted by the pandemic.
President Joe Biden paused new oil and gas leasing on federal lands as his administration reviewed fossil fuel development policy.
In normal times, this past weekend would have been a climactic one for the tiny town of Cuba, Kansas.
Rep. Valdenia Winn expressed her concerns with forcing K-12 educators to provide in-person learning for the remainder of the schoolyear.
Kansas Republican Sen. Mike Thompson, a climate change denier and green energy critic, chairs panel hearing bill.
Kansas Sen. Mark Steffen championed legislation prohibiting the state health secretary from requiring new immunizations for school children.
Higher education in Kansas is under attack.
Dozens of U.S. House Democrats backed a resolution filed Friday to expel controversial U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress.
Megan Paceley, an associate prof. at the KU school of social welfare, found that states with hostile policies lead to worse mental health.
Black Americans are twice as likely as to have Alzheimer’s than white Americans, and Hispanic Americans one and a half times as likely.
A Kansas bill creating new crimes for damage of critical public or private infrastructure prompted inquiries for more stringent protection.
Federal health officials have revised their guidance to schools on how far apart students should be spaced in a classroom.
See the latest announcement from the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce.
The first time I ever heard an aggrieved white man assert that “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” it was 1982.
Measures allowing production of distinctive Kansas license plates have sparked conversation over where funds raised are spent.
A Senate Republican expressed reservations about using federal aid to compensate businesses impacted by the pandemic.