TOPEKA – A tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is officially over after no new patients have been diagnosed with the disease since April. The outbreak began in early 2024, ultimately including Wyandotte and Johnson counties, according to a news release from the Kansas ...
Tenured faculty members at the University of Kansas would get reviewed more often and might have to teach more classes under a set of proposals that the state’s higher education leaders soon will review. With several state lawmakers saying they have concerns about the current tenure system ...
TOPEKA — The U.S. House delegation from Kansas split along partisan lines Wednesday on the appropriations legislation drawing to a close the longest federal government shutdown in the nation’s history. Republican U.S. Reps. Derek Schmidt, Tracey Mann and Ron Estes voted with the 222-209 ...
Demolition on the east side of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium will begin next month, and KU leaders now say a portion of the east side of the stadium will open for the 2026 football season. University of Kansas Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt told the Journal-World that demolition on ...
There was both a ribbon cutting and an anointing Wednesday at the University of Kansas’ new 55,000-square-foot conference center that is attached to the university’s renovated football stadium. “This center meets the high standards of the University of Kansas,” Gov. Laura Kelly ...
TOPEKA — Kansas turned in a 60-page application last week in hopes of receiving a share of $50 billion in federal money designed to transform rural health. Nearly one-third of Kansans live in rural communities, and the state’s Rural Health Transformation Plan aims to improve health in ...