TOPEKA — A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor. In two of the four agreements, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office also crafted a statement admitting ...

TOPEKA — After days of uncertainty about whether the federal government would release funding for food assistance, the Department for Children and Families announced Friday that it issued November benefits. Kansans should have full access to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

It had been 72 hours since Ken Hush had taken over as interim president of his alma mater, Emporia State University. Despite growing up in Emporia, Hush wouldn’t exactly say he was comfortable in his new setting. He had spent more than 20 years as a successful executive with Wichita-based ...

TOPEKA — Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins stripped three Republicans of committee chairmanships for refusing to sign a petition calling for a special legislative session to redraw congressional boundaries in a bid to block reelection of Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids and to tackle a ...

University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is uncertain how much a voluntary early retirement program for tenured faculty may reduce the size of KU’s workforce, but he does have one belief about the university’s workforce going forward. “When you think about it, you do ultimately ...

States like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah may have mountains and canyons that beautifully fill picture windows, but Kansas has one type of window that makes geologists in those state’s envious. A window to the world beneath our feet. The Lawrence-based Kansas Geological Survey has one of the ...