It was a brief journalism lesson Tuesday evening from Bill Kurtis, a Kansan who has had anything but a brief journalism career. Kurtis — who delivered the 2024 Dole Lecture to a capacity crowd of more than 200 people at the Dole Institute of Politics on the KU campus — has covered the ...

Four people were arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping over the weekend in connection with the disappearances of two women. Veronica Butler, 27; and Jilian Kelley, 39, of Hugoton, Kansas, were driving through the Oklahoma panhandle to pick up Butler's children for a March 30 birthday ...

Story updated at 7:50 p.m. Saturday, April 13: The 1,105-acre Kansas Sky Energy Center solar project no longer has much standing in the way of its construction on agricultural land in Grant Township after earning unanimous approval from the Douglas County Commission on Saturday ...

The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper that had its newsroom raided by law enforcement urged journalists and the public on Thursday to become even more aggressive in standing up to government. “What happened to us was that somebody, politically, weaponized the police force, “ Eric ...

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country, including Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence and Baker University in Baldwin ...

Douglas County leaders on Wednesday approved a new plan for how the county should be conserving its open spaces, a year and a half after the development process for the plan began. At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners unanimously adopted a new Open Space Plan. As ...