The 2020 census count is set to end Sept 30, a month earlier than originally planned. That’s left census workers and advocates hurrying to get as many...

As more of the lesser prairie chicken's habitat is taken over by agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting more voluntary conservation initiatives for the bird and the health of the Great Plains.

Climate change is at the root of this year’s extreme weather events, from the wild swings between flooding and drought in Kansas to larger hurricanes...

A panel of lawmakers and the governor will consider $50 million in proposals to expand COVID-19 testing, including $20 million that could go toward helping schools.

This likely isn't the last time there'll be a fight over the disaster declaration, as the State Finance Council must vote monthly on whether to extend it.

WICHITA, Kansas — Universities don’t just sell the chance at an education. The whole college experience has been a key tool for keeping students around....

AstraZeneca hopes to enroll 30,000 people in its Phase 3 trials in the United States. The KU/Children’s Mercy trial was looking to recruit 1,500 participants.

WICHITA, Kansas — A standard school bus can hold as many as 72 students, as long as you pack them in three to a bench. That just isn’t possible during a...

Wichita’s mask requirement has been extended only until Oct. 21 — though it could end sooner than that.

Weeks into the outbreak at Riverbend in Kansas City, Kansas, inspectors still saw health workers caring for COVID-19 patients without proper protective gear.

To fix the state's coronavirus-related budget issues, Gov. Laura Kelly stripped a $9 million increase for organizations that help people with intellectual and physical disabilities. She's also targeting millions from a juvenile justice program.

Robert Courtney pleaded guilty in 2001 to diluting cancer and other medications over the course of nearly a decade.

Kinship families, who take in foster children who are related to them, are more likely to lack computers and other tools needed for online learning, say foster care agencies.

More and more Kansans who lost jobs because of the coronavirus are falling behind in their rent and mortgage payments.

State officials hope two labs in Johnson County could help Kansas boost its testing capacity dramatically for schools, nursing homes and asymptomatic people.

Humboldt, Kansas, was an example of a Midwestern town that had overcome the Great Recession and a loss of population by improving the quality of life in town with community pitch-in projects.

Schools count on census to help them serve vulnerable kids, but many of those families haven't filled it out yet. Disruption caused by the coronavirus could mean less money for years to come.

Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health called it an "evolving situation," and has been doing contact tracing as the university began a new semester this week.

When it takes several days for nurse's aides to get a COVID-19 test and find out if they're sick, coworkers have to work long hours, picking up extra shifts.

When the coronavirus first became a big deal in Kansas back in March, elementary school music teacher Emily Boedeker’s life changed quickly. One day she...

More than 100 inmates have sought to have their convictions vacated or their sentences reduced, claiming their Sixth Amendment rights were violated.

WICHITA, Kansas — Some students at public universities in Kansas have, or will yet get, the coronavirus. Football players training over the summer have...