TOPEKA — The number of tourists in Kansas exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time in 2023. In 2023, an estimated 37.9 million people visited the state, a 4% increase from the year before, according…

TOPEKA — Kansas ranked worst in the nation for mental illness prevalence and mental health care access in a 2023 report, but new data shows the state’s ranking significantly improved this year. An annual report…

TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas put 5,600 miles on his truck visiting constituents during the August congressional break, and the Republican carried a message of despair about the agriculture economy back to…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach’s office fined a rural, seven-member school board for repeatedly violating the Kansas Open Meetings Act. The Chautauqua County school district board, a 380-student district in southeast Kansas,…

TOPEKA — Kansans are uninsured at a rate higher than the rest of the country for a third-straight year, but the effects of Medicaid “unwinding” have yet to be seen, recent U.S. Census Bureau data…

TOPEKA — An annual, independent review of Kansas’ foster care system shows it fell short for the third year in a row of improvements to housing instability and mental health care delays. The progress report,…

WICHITA — A text message scam using the state’s new toll payment name and logo is going around, the Kansas Turnpike Authority said Tuesday afternoon. A text, which is using numbers “chosen at random” and…

TOPEKA — As Kansas officials, foster care service providers and advocates work to improve a system with a checkered past, new initiatives bring optimism for kids who have historically been left behind. The fewest number…

WICHITA, Kansas — The outcome of an effort to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution could have sweeping ramifications for access in Kansas and beyond, according to health care providers and analysts. Missourians will vote…

A concession trailer that exploded Tuesday evening at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson sent two people to the hospital and injured several others, authorities said. Hutchinson Fire Department crews were sent at 6:28 p.m.…