HUTCHINSON — Hutchinson residents can bring more chickens home to roost. The Hutchinson City Council voted Tuesday to increase the number of chickens a resident can own, changing it from three to eight chickens on…

LAWRENCE — Key details are beginning to emerge on the $4 billion Panasonic battery plant set to open in De Soto in 2025, in particular, how communities such as Lawrence will be affected. The Lawrence…

PITTSBURG — Pittsburg State University biology students are working alongside an associate professor this summer to research tick-borne diseases — the leading vector-borne diseases and among the most pressing public health issues in the nation…

CHENEY — A local fisherman helped resolve a 33-year-old mystery recently. The Wichita Eagle reported John Mounce of Wichita was fishing in Cheney Reservoir May 29 when a sonar device tipped him off that a…

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…