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Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
06/24/19
Kansas has agreed to change its policy and allow transgender people born in the state to update the sex listed on their birth certificates. The Kansas...
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
06/21/19
The terms for handing off the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, have been settled — even as the billion-dollar-plus research...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
06/19/19
The Kansas Board of Regents pressured state university officials to rethink hiking tuition, and the schools did just that. In-state tuition for...
Author
Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
06/18/19
Wichita Public Schools is considering adding explicit protections for transgender students and staff this year.
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
06/17/19
“A Clockwork Orange.” “Invisible Man.” “Twelve Years a Slave.” Issues of Bloomberg Businessweek, Us Weekly, Elle. “Excel 2016 for Dummies.” “Tarot...
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
06/14/19
A Kansas law that caps jury awards for noneconomic damages — things like pain and suffering — violates the right to a trial by jury, the Kansas Supreme...
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
06/14/19
Members of the group Keep Reno Heavenly showed a mix of emotions after the Reno County Commission denied NextEra Energy a permit to build a wind farm in...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
06/14/19
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday effectively ended a nearly decade-long lawsuit by ruling that state lawmakers finally sent enough money to local...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
06/13/19
Education officials in Kansas are taking a two-pronged approach to reducing teacher shortages: raising pay and fast-tracking teaching assistants and...
Author
Frank Morris
Posted on
06/13/19
(This story was updated at 5:15 p.m.) The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans Thursday to move headquarters of two large research agencies...
Author
Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
06/13/19
Vaping at Kansas schools is reaching epidemic proportions, prompting the Kansas State Board of Education to launch a concerted campaign against it. ...
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
06/11/19
Kansas can no longer put off care for Medicaid patients with hepatitis C because of a recent legal settlement . But hundreds of the state’s prison...
Author
Corinne Boyer
Posted on
06/10/19
Every summer since 1922, locals and tourists have flocked to Garden City’s Big Pool. Once promoted as “the world’s largest outdoor free concrete...
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
06/06/19
The month of May was an all-timer in Kansas, as sites across the state recorded rain on all but two days. The deluge broke state and local rainfall...
Author
Mark Davis
Posted on
06/06/19
Wells Fargo has agreed to a second round of payments to more than 400 members of the military whose personal vehicles the banking giant repossessed...
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
06/05/19
The state spending review panel is freeing up some of the money the Kansas Department of Corrections asked for to place inmates in county jails and...
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
06/05/19
Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday she’ll dispatch her lieutenant governor to a dozen small cities across the state in hopes of crafting a plan to aid...
Author
Elle Moxley
Posted on
06/05/19
For more than 100 years, Eudora had a weekly newspaper. “We were able to have a sports reporter, somebody that would come out when we had a structure...
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
06/04/19
Nine nursing homes in Kansas and 14 in Missouri are among nearly 400 nationwide with a “persistent record of poor care” whose names had been withheld...
Author
Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
06/03/19
In the 1990s, the near future looked like a place where distance would no longer matter. In an increasingly online economy, location would matter less...
Author
Roxie Hammill-Kaiser Health News
Posted on
06/03/19
The leaders of Pathway Church on the outskirts of Wichita, Kan., had no clue that the $22,000 they already had on hand for Easter would have such impact...
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
06/01/19
Battles over a Republican tax cut proposal and Medicaid expansion persisted through the last day of the Kansas Legislature's 2019 session … and remain...
