PITTSBURG — A new 50-bed hospital north of Pittsburg remains on track, affirmed Paula Baker, CEO of Freeman Health Systems. Baker said the hospital will be on land annexed by the city of Frontenac at…

Public health officials with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and the Kansas Department for Children and Families recently discussed approaching an aging population and their…

Nearly 1 of every 5 uninsured working-age adults across the 10 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are, according to a new analysis, stuck in a health care limbo known…

LAWRENCE — Deb Gruver felt heartbroken and violated when police raided the Marion County Record last year. As a reporter at the newspaper, Gruver knew that powerful people in town weren’t fans of the accountability…

Women in Kansas have a harder time accessing and affording health care than in most other states, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund. The report, published Thursday, ranked Kansas 32nd in the…

TOPEKA — Large cash donations to campaigns of Democrat Sharice Davids and Republican Derek Schmidt contributed to second quarter receipts of nearly $2.5 million among Kansas congressional candidates and set the stage for a surge…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge’s order blocking a Biden administration rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination applies to hundreds of schools and colleges across the U.S., and a group challenging it hopes…

The families of nearly 100,000 children in Kansas were potentially eligible for child care subsidies in 2020. Yet barely more than one in eight got the federal benefit designed to make child care more affordable.…

Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North America could count on spotting one of the continent’s most common bumblebee species buzzing from flower to flower. Today the American bumblebee is in…

A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while employed at the University of Kansas. Feng “Franklin” Tao was convicted in April…