The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Stevens County Health Department have reported a positive case of measles in a resident of Stevens County, a rural county of around 5,250 residents in…

TOPEKA — Republican legislation to establish child support payments for pregnancy-related costs — and, in turn, establish “fetal personhood” — revealed tension among legislators as one Democratic senator inserted a bipartisan tax credit provision. Senate…

TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers want to eliminate a tax credit that aims to build affordable homes throughout the state. They say the program costs too much money, despite an ongoing housing shortage. The 3-year-old Kansas…

TOPEKA — A House bill would allocate an additional $20 million annually to the Kansas Water Plan fund to support projects for cities across the state. House Bill 2113 builds upon new funding from the…

PEABODY — The Kansas Department of Commerce made a deal with officials in Peabody to allow completion of a $1.5 million infrastructure improvement project designed to spark economic renewal in the central Kansas town. The…

WICHITA — It’s a busy Friday afternoon at The Monarch bar and restaurant in downtown Wichita, and food server Kelly Bonnell is right at home. As she grabs a customer’s sandwich and fries from the…

TOPEKA — Kansas Senators advanced a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would change how state supreme court justices are selected. The amendment, which requires approval from two thirds of the Legislature and more than 50% of…

Less than two miles from the University of Kansas, home of one of the most storied programs in college basketball, Adam Strom, the 48-year-old coach at Haskell Indian Nations University — tiny with 978 students,…

The immigrant detainee, a client of Rekha Sharma-Crawford, would have to be moved. Chase County Detention Center was full. Located in Cottonwood Falls, it’s the largest detainee holding center in the region contracting with U.S.…

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have gotten a crash course in Medicaid during the last few weeks, as they eye the health care program for lower-income Americans as a source for hundreds of billions of…