PARSONS — A school building that has been shuttered since 1999 will be demolished. Parson USD 503 members voted, 5-2, Tuesday to have the old Washington School torn down. The building had been used as…

TOPEKA — A new Medicaid report finds more than $1.3 million may have been overpaid to managed care organizations due to slow information provision, causing Kansas Medicaid programs to pay members after they left the…

OSWEGO — A bridge spanning the Neosho River south of Oswego sustained minor damage after somebody set fire to logs and limbs caught on one of the bridge’s pilings Saturday night. The Parsons Sun reported…

TOPEKA — Approximately 100 letters targeting Republican legislators and public officials that contain a suspicious white powder had been received as of Sunday. While the powder has not been identified, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation…

TOPEKA — Enforcement of a Kansas abortion law based in junk science has been indefinitely delayed, in what abortion providers call a temporary relief for a “dangerous and misleading” practice. On Tuesday, Kansas abortion providers…

The Texas-based owners of the Chanute Tribune and Parsons Sun announced Friday both publications will shift to a two-days-a-week schedule, with print copies available each Tuesday and Friday. “Nostalgia may make us feel protective of…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Kansas Highway Patrol seized thousands of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl in the first large haul of a state team designed to combat the flow of the synthetic…

TOPEKA — Child care challenges have forced Kansas parents to give up or change jobs, while child care workers are paid worse than 98% of professions, according to a new report. Kansas Action for Children…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An invasive fish species last seen in Missouri in 2019 is now back, and there are concerns it could continue to spread throughout the state. A northern snakehead fish was captured…

WASHINGTON, Kan. — Chris and Bill Pannbacker stood atop a steep sandstone hill adjacent to the spot on the family farm where a major break in TC Energy’s Keystone pipeline showered thousands of barrels of…