The Kansas Highway Patrol must stop using a tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step” to detain out-of-state drivers long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs, a federal judge has…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Agriculture gives a dam.The department has been allocated $10 million in funding for several state water projects, including dam rehabilitation and repair and irrigation technology improvements.About $7 million of…

Foreign cybercriminals launched the attack on the Kansas judicial branch’s information system in October and stole records of appellate cases and judicial administration files potentially regarded as confidential under state law, officials said Tuesday.Justices of…

TOPEKA — Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that he grew it out to connect with his cultural heritage. The American Civil…

A “suspicious letter” was delivered to the state’s top election official’s office Tuesday, and the building was evacuated as a precaution.Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s office was shut down for the rest of the…

ST. MARYS — The public library in St. Marys has managed to hang onto its lease for one more year by removing all of the youth-oriented LGBTQ books from library shelves. Library director Judith Cremer…

When Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital closed in early 2019, the community of 7,550 people in southeast, Kansas, briefly lost its emergency room. Mayor Matthew Wells remembers the time without an ER clearly. “I watched several…

Cleaner Greener Future (CGF), a Parsons-based renewable energy consultancy, announced this week its role in securing U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development grants for five local businesses as part of a $4.21 million initiative to…

TOPEKA — As opioid overdoses in Kansas show no sign of slowing down, officials have unrolled new funding to tackle school-level prevention initiatives and stock more homes with emergency overdose treatments.  The Kansas Fights Addiction Grant…

Only about half of the 12 million people who were eligible for the food assistance program commonly known as WIC took part, according to a new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The report…