Prescription drugs of every stripe are godsends for people who need them. However, there always have been those who are careless, or take advantage of circumstances to tread the wrong side of the legal divide.…

Is this a fissure of note in the ultra-conservative wing of the Kansas Republican Party? Senate President Susan Wagle on Tuesday was critical of Gov. Sam Brownback for forfeiting a strong leadership role to find…

Allen and Anderson counties commissioners have enacted documents setting out guidelines that must be observed for energy companies to erect wind-farm turbines. Anderson’s are stricter. If all or part of a wind farm is to…

Two events announced in Topeka on Thursday will greatly affect ongoing efforts to set the state’s financial ship on a correct and steady course, as well as how to rewrite the way public schools are…

The campaign to fill Mike Pompeo’s 4th District seat in the U.S. House is in full swing with the outcome to be decided on April 11.Days after being re-elected in 2016 to a fourth term,…

The Associated Press: “In a week’s time, the state House approved a huge increase in personal income taxes, voted to override Brownback’s all-but-inevitable veto and approved an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program he vigorously…

Avarice may cause injustices, but more often pragmatism is the tipping point that wins the day.That likely will be true of the Dakota Access pipeline being built to carry oil from the Bakken shale fields…

To The Editor Five is enough for the council, if you can get it: and that’s the rub. Getting five was the intent of working for the eight member council some years back. This sounds like…

My old college buddy Horton Smith had an odd way of speaking.He liked to abbreviate and misuse words. Once we saw a magnificent St. Bernard ambling along with a street with its owner: “Average ’nard,”…

Kent Thompson and Adam Lusker, who represent Allen County in the Kansas House, voted Wednesday to override Gov. Brownback’s veto of a bill to restore income taxes cuts of 2012-13.Their votes were to return fiscal…