On an Earth Day like no other before it, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the air was cleaner than in decades and animals had begun to reclaim the streets in many urban areas across the…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature’s leadership postponed resumption of the session Wednesday to protect two-thirds of lawmakers considered at risk of being infected with COVID-19, a decision likely to compel Gov. Laura Kelly to issue…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ top health official said Wednesday that the state is considering testing all prison inmates and residents of long-term care homes for the coronavirus, as such homes have accounted for more…

Three months after the first U.S. case of the novel coronavirus was reported, the country still has no national testing strategy. Most public health experts agree that production and deployment of coronavirus testing on a…

The last time America suffered an economic meltdown, in 2008, we came out of it poorly. Yes, the economy and the stock market recovered. So did the banks, with a big assist from Uncle Sam.…

Constance Lea “Connie” (Gumfory) Miller, age 68, of rural LaHarpe, passed away on Friday, April 17, 2020, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, after battling cancer.  She was born on Nov. 9, 1951,…

The new coronavirus has arrived at the state’s meatpacking plants. It was to be expected, perhaps, given the outbreaks at food processors in other states, but that doesn’t make the development any less ominous or…

Velma Lois Spillman, age 89, of Moran, died Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at Moran Manor.  She was born Dec. 13, 1930, near Elsmore, to Curtis Benton Robb and Mary Alice (Curry) Robb.  She married Max…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said today. Roughly 26…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A motorist who was shot and wounded by an officer who was being dragged by the suspect’s car has been released from the hospital and taken to jail, police in Topeka…