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Kansas Has Classes To Stop Domestic Violence, But The Perpetrators Often Drop Out

Nomin Ujiyediin 04/25/19

Why Did The Armadillo Cross The Road Into Kansas? Climate Change

Brian Grimmett 04/22/19

School Building Upkeep Left To Local Taxpayers In Kansas, So Sometimes Sun Peers Through The Walls

Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report 04/22/19

Featured Stories

Rapidly Expanding AdventHealth Extends Its Reach To Ottawa, Kansas

Dan Margolies 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...

H&R Block Co-Founder And Philanthropist Henry W. Bloch Dies At Age 96

Laura Spencer 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...

KU And Saint Luke’s Hospitals' Suit Says Liver Allocation Policy Will Cause Hundreds To Die

Dan Margolies 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...

Branch Rickey III On Baseball, Wichita's New Team And The 'Beautiful Legend' Of Jackie Robinson

Tom Shine 04/19/19

Branch Rickey III is part of a legendary baseball family that has been entwined with the sport for more than 100 years. His grandfather, Branch Rickey,...

Many Kansas Babies Still Aren't Sleeping Safely. Here's What Families Should Know.

Celia Llopis-Jepsen 04/18/19

Many Kansas families may not be following safe sleep practices meant to cut down the risk that infants could die in their sleep. The first survey of its...

How Emporia, Kansas, Fights Rural Brain Drain: ‘Broadband Is The New Railroad’

Peggy Lowe 04/18/19

A small city in Kansas is determined to prove The Onion wrong. Folks in Emporia, Kansas, weren’t laughing when the satirical paper named it “ best town...

Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Reached In Kansas Gun Store Negligence Lawsuit

Chris Haxel 04/17/19

The families of several people who were killed or wounded in a 2016 mass shooting near Wichita, Kansas, have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement in...

Farm Bureaus Make An Attempt At Affordable Health Insurance, But Plans Exclude Some

Jim McLean 04/17/19

In a recent national survey, farmers said the biggest threat to their livelihoods wasn’t low commodity prices or global trade policies. It was the...

Monarchs To Flutter Through Kansas, Catch Them While You Can

Brian Grimmett 04/15/19

The annual spring migration of monarch butterflies from Mexico northward could reach Kansas in the next few weeks. The monarchs are important...

Kansas Lawmakers Suggest Abortion Pill May Be Reversible. Scientists Dispute That.

Celia Llopis-Jepsen 04/15/19

UPDATE: On April 5, after this story was first published, both chambers of the Kansas Legislature passed a measure mandating notice that the abortion...

Kansas Gives Up On Its Long-Running Effort To End Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid Funding

Dan Margolies 04/15/19

Kansas has dropped its effort to terminate Planned Parenthood’s participation in Medicaid, ending a three-year-long court battle that the state lost at...

Kansas Foster Care Agency Has New Rules For Dealing With Child-On-Child Sexual Assault

Nomin Ujiyediin 04/12/19

A new law standardizing Kansas’ response to child-on-child sexual assault could cost $126,000 and result in more than 3,200 treatment referrals a year....

Gusting Southwest Kansas Winds Knock Down Fences, Set Dogs Loose, Pack Animal Shelters

Corinne Boyer 04/12/19

Wind scrapes across the plains of southwest Kansas like few places in the country. It drives a booming new industry of turbines that feeds electricity...

T-Rex At KU Museum Goes On eBay, Social Media Roars Its Disapproval

Stephen Koranda 04/10/19

You can find just about anything on eBay, including now a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil listed for almost $3 million. The online sale drew an outcry on...

Cities Are Releasing Neutered Feral Cats — To Kansas Birders, That's Unnerving

Stephan Bisaha 04/09/19

Cities in Kansas have been adopting a new approach for dealing with feral cats: neutering and vaccinating them, and then allowing the felines to roam...

Allegations Of Fraud, Stolen Records Swirl In Legal Fight Over Hillsboro, Kansas, Hospital

Dan Margolies 04/09/19

Allegations of financial fraud and stolen hospital records have surfaced in an increasingly nasty legal battle over the fate of Hillsboro Community...

Kansas Is Short On School Bus Drivers. One Company And Its Drivers Have An Idea.

Celia Llopis-Jepsen 04/08/19

Ray Alvarez remembers the summer he couldn’t make ends meet driving children to school. “I did qualify for food stamps,” the Olathe school bus driver...

One In Four Kansas Public Defenders Quit Last Year, Leaving Agency ‘In Crisis’

Nomin Ujiyediin 04/08/19

Ruslan Ivanov loved being a public defender. What he didn’t love was the way his work constantly followed him — at home, with friends and family, even...

Wichita State Report Rating Major Airlines Says Air Travel Is Improving … Really

Brian Grimmett 04/08/19

It’s easy to complain about air travel, but the latest Airline Quality Rating study shows, overall, it’s getting better for passengers.

School Funding Passed, Commerce Secretary Confirmed, We Are Adjourned

Jim McLean 04/07/19

Things got a little chippy during the final week of the regular legislative session, but Kansas lawmakers came away with a school funding plan and a...

Decades After ‘In Cold Blood,’ Kansas Tried To Prevent Publication Of Investigator's Notes

Dan Margolies 04/06/19

Kansas will have to cough up more than $168,000 in legal fees over its attempt to prevent the publication of investigative files related to the murders...

How Slow Internet Hurts Rural Areas, Starting With Cattle Sales

Corinne Boyer 04/05/19

Crawling internet speeds in rural Kansas make trying to sell cattle online exasperating. Instead of uploading photos and videos of cattle for sale from...

Featured Stories

Rapidly Expanding AdventHealth Extends Its Reach To Ottawa, Kansas

H&R Block Co-Founder And Philanthropist Henry W. Bloch Dies At Age 96

KU And Saint Luke’s Hospitals' Suit Says Liver Allocation Policy Will Cause Hundreds To Die

Branch Rickey III On Baseball, Wichita's New Team And The 'Beautiful Legend' Of Jackie Robinson

Many Kansas Babies Still Aren't Sleeping Safely. Here's What Families Should Know.

How Emporia, Kansas, Fights Rural Brain Drain: ‘Broadband Is The New Railroad’

Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Reached In Kansas Gun Store Negligence Lawsuit

Farm Bureaus Make An Attempt At Affordable Health Insurance, But Plans Exclude Some

Monarchs To Flutter Through Kansas, Catch Them While You Can

Kansas Lawmakers Suggest Abortion Pill May Be Reversible. Scientists Dispute That.

Kansas Gives Up On Its Long-Running Effort To End Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid Funding

Kansas Foster Care Agency Has New Rules For Dealing With Child-On-Child Sexual Assault

Gusting Southwest Kansas Winds Knock Down Fences, Set Dogs Loose, Pack Animal Shelters

T-Rex At KU Museum Goes On eBay, Social Media Roars Its Disapproval

Cities Are Releasing Neutered Feral Cats — To Kansas Birders, That's Unnerving

Allegations Of Fraud, Stolen Records Swirl In Legal Fight Over Hillsboro, Kansas, Hospital

Kansas Is Short On School Bus Drivers. One Company And Its Drivers Have An Idea.

One In Four Kansas Public Defenders Quit Last Year, Leaving Agency ‘In Crisis’

Wichita State Report Rating Major Airlines Says Air Travel Is Improving … Really

School Funding Passed, Commerce Secretary Confirmed, We Are Adjourned

Decades After ‘In Cold Blood,’ Kansas Tried To Prevent Publication Of Investigator's Notes

How Slow Internet Hurts Rural Areas, Starting With Cattle Sales

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