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Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
05/16/19
Rethink those planned tuition hikes. That’s the word from the Kansas Board of Regents, which is considering tuition proposals from universities not long...
Garden City Community College Trustees voted Tuesday to spend $100,000 on an independent investigation into the exertional heatstroke death of a...
Author
Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
05/14/19
The new reality of smoking at Kansas high schools is visible in the parking lots, where used-up Juul pods have taken the place of cigarette butts. “You...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
05/14/19
Kansas senators met Tuesday to formally vote down Gov. Laura Kelly’s nomination for a Court of Appeals seat. In a strange twist, even Kelly wanted her...
Author
Brian Grimmett
Posted on
05/14/19
Solar panel users in Kansas continue to pay higher electricity bills as they wait for utility company Evergy to keep a promise made during this year’s...
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
05/13/19
Missouri and Kansas have joined 41 other states and Puerto Rico in a lawsuit accusing generic drug makers of conspiring to manipulate and drive up...
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
05/12/19
A deal to clear the way for Medicaid expansion next year that some Kansas lawmakers thought they had brokered in the waning hours of their just-finished...
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
05/10/19
Kansas is one of just a handful of states that doesn’t allow a person injured by a drunk driver to sue the retailer who furnished the alcohol. On Friday...
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
05/09/19
A fresh push by school districts to get Kansas to pony up more money for public education met with skepticism Thursday from the Kansas Supreme Court....
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
05/07/19
All Kansas lawmakers really had to do to end the 2019 legislative session was pass a budget. They did that, with gusto. But also without passing...
Author
Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
05/07/19
For nine weeks, Zyrie Berry-Henricks has been meeting with four other University of Kansas students to try to answer the question: What does it mean to...
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
05/07/19
Stephanneth Adams plans to leave Kansas. The nurse practitioner landed in the state’s rural southwest — where she saw patients in Garden City, Dodge...
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
05/07/19
Kansas may soon turn to private contractors to take the overflow from its crowded prisons, raising questions about growing costs and the reliability of...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
05/06/19
In the waning days of the 2019 session, the conservative Republicans controlling the Kansas Legislature made one thing clear to Democratic Gov. Laura...
Author
Corinne Boyer
Posted on
05/02/19
Long-running frustration about Amtrak’s willingness to keep a rail passenger line running through remote parts of the country has politicians...
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
05/01/19
Supporters of expanding Medicaid in Kansas proved Wednesday they’ve got the votes in the Legislature — if they can get a vote. But they lacked enough...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
04/29/19
Legalizing sports gambling in Kansas seemed like a safe bet earlier this year. It’s a new source of tax dollars and enjoys bipartisan support.
Author
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
04/26/19
(This story was updated at 4:45 p.m.) Kansas women have a fundamental right to abortion, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday — a decision that has...
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
04/25/19
Almost half the people locked up in Kansas prisons admit they have a history of domestic violence — getting the cops called after an argument with a...
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
04/24/19
AdventHealth will take over operation of Ransom Memorial Health, a 44-bed acute-care hospital in Ottawa, Kansas, the Florida-based health system...
Author
Laura Spencer
Posted on
04/23/19
Henry W. Bloch died Tuesday at the age of 96. A notable philanthropist, Bloch and his brother, Richard, co-founded the tax preparation business H&R...
Author
Dan Margolies
Posted on
04/23/19
Two Kansas City area hospitals joined 12 other transplant centers this week in a lawsuit over a new liver allocation policy that they say will result in...
