The secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism plans to retire, the governor’s office announced Wednesday. Brad Loveless has led the department since the start of Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration in January…

 FRONTENAC — The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas is building a six-suite hospice facility on 16 acres in Frontenac, according to The Morning Sun. The $8 million Mount Carmel Hospice House is funded by…

Caney is running out of water. Caney city and school officials spelled out the dire situation this week with Montgomery County commissioners, who are seeking a state water emergency, the Montgomery County Chronicle reported. Caney…

 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as…

 Caney Valley Schools will finish the fall semester with a four-day school week. The change, along with several other measures designed to reduce water consumption, was approved 6-1 by the district’s board last week and…

The bipartisan Legislative Compensation Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to recommend a proposal that calls for raising lawmaker pay from an average compensation of $29,000 to an annual salary of $43,000. Legislative leaders like the…

LONE JACK, Missouri — Auctioneer Dirk Soulis opened bidding on a 1929 oil landscape painting by the late Kansas artist Birger Sandzén at a modest $40,000. Within 45 seconds, bidding surged past $100,000. “Thank you,”…

Charges requested against K-9 handler PARSONS — The handler of the Parsons Police Department’s K-9 unit may face criminal charges after the animal died in August. An autopsy report indicated exposure to extreme heat was…

TOPEKA — A computer network incident in Kansas interrupting electronic filings and payments in the state’s appellate courts and the district courts in all but populous Johnson County has been extended indefinitely, officials said Monday.…

TOPEKA — The state has approximately four months left to finish a large-scale Medicaid review process, with more than 20,000 Kansans already deemed ineligible for health coverage.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal “continuous coverage” provisions…