MANHATTAN — Melissa McCoy grew up in southwest Kansas, graduated from Kansas State University and spent nearly a decade as a educator in Mexico City. In 2006, she decided to return to Kansas with her…

TOPEKA — Kansans woke to a new statutory landscape Monday after contents of 101 bills approved by the Legislature and, mostly, signed into law by Gov. Laura Kelly officially take effect. With turning of the…

TOPEKA — The lone Democrat in the Kansas congressional delegation expressed dismay Friday the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision establishing that federal prosecutors improperly sought charges of obstructing an official proceeding against rioters who…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday that he expects the state to put together an aid plan by the end of the year to try to keep the Kansas City…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that four states will launch voluntary pilot programs in the days ahead to test bulk milk tanks on dairy farms for bird flu — a move…

KanCare, Kansas’ Medicaid program, will cover doula services for its pregnant beneficiaries beginning July 1. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a release that the policy change aims to improve maternal health…

TOPEKA — A committee of the Kansas Legislature opened an inquiry into the Kelly administration’s replacement of one of three Medicaid contractors with a Blue Cross and Blue Shield entity linked to the disgraced company…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri on Monday together blocked much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for…

Jane Breckinridge is a fifth-generation farmer but is the first in her family to raise butterflies. “Some people have hogs as livestock or they have goats,” she said. “I’m just very, very lucky because my…

Drivers on the Kansas Turnpike will soon no longer need to pull over to pay their toll. Starting July 1, the toll highway will be cashless, allowing drivers to fly right through on ramps and…