HUTCHINSON — Reno County is asking for proposals from companies to utilize the landfill gas that is generated from the Reno County Landfill.  County commissioners approved the plan on Tuesday, the Hutchinson news reported. The…

PITTSBURG — Dan Shipp’s cycling expedition netted more than $7.6 million for Pittsburg State University. The college president concluded a 12-day, 745-mile trek across the Sunflower State as part of his “Dan Bikes Kansas” campaign.…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at a brain injury awareness event in his…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature backed off a threat to sue the state’s Democratic governor for vetoing parts of a GOP education funding bill, saying Thursday that they still doubt the…

MANHATTAN — National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility researcher Lisa Hensley’s career took her from laboratory to laboratory and country to country to study the alphabet soup of ghastly pathogens such as SARs, mpox, MERs and…

Month after month without enough rain has made Kansas the epicenter of a stubborn drought covering parts of the Great Plains.  While the drought that plagued almost the entire western half of the U.S. last…

Owners of the Keystone pipeline knew a defect had formed years before the strain finally caused the pipeline to burst and flood a Kansas creek with oil last year.  The Keystone pipeline, owned by TC…

TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said the federal government ought to break up the United Network of Organ Sharing’s nearly 40-year monopoly on management of the national organ procurement and transplantation network.…

Despite calls to rename Johnson County, Kansas’ Negro Creek, a committee has decided to keep the controversial name, worried that removing it would erase a painful piece of history. Many Johnson County residents spent years…

CHANUTE — Chanute may eliminate property taxes as a means to generate revenue for future budgets. City Manager Todd Newman proposed this week what would be a radical departure from what the city has done…