CHANUTE — Repairs to Chanute’s 21st Street overpass spanning U.S. 169 has begun this week. The Kansas Department of Transportation announced in a press release that the highway will be reduced to one lane within…

TOPEKA — As local school board candidates gear up for the November election, community leaders worry about misinformation and extremist candidates. Judith Deedy, executive director of Game On for Kansas Schools, a public education advocacy…

TOPEKA — Affidavits signed by a police chief and magistrate to warrant the raid on the Marion County Record were supposed to provide evidence that a reporter committed a crime. Instead, they serve as evidence that the…

PITTSBURG — Authorities are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspects in an early Sunday morning shooting that left a man dead. Justin E. Krogen, 36, of Pittsburg, was killed in the shooting outside…

Labette to fund transportation program OSWEGO — Labette County will help fund a public transportation service. Commissioners approved a $4,826 expenditure to help fund the service, which will be administered by the Southeast Kansas-Community Action Program…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department (SEKMCHD) are in the preliminary stages of investigating individuals ill with campylobacteriosis possibly associated with Trade Winds Bar…

TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says state authorities reviewing alleged crimes associated with the raid of a Marion newspaper are interested in whether someone breached the Kansas Criminal Justice Information System. Police raided…

The widely-criticized raid of a newspaper in Marion County could result in taxpayers footing the bill if there’s a successful federal lawsuit saying police violated the journalists’ First Amendment rights. Legal experts say that could…

MARION, Kansas (AP) — The prosecutor in Marion County, Kansas, said Wednesday that police should return all seized material to a weekly newspaper that was raided by officers in a case that has drawn national scrutiny…

CHANUTE — Chanute City Commissioners have taken a previously unheard of approach to funding the city’s 2024 budget, by eliminating property taxes as a revenue source for the general fund. In what City Manager Todd…