A $5.7 million project to improve three federal highways north of Lawrence will get started Thursday, and significant traffic delays may begin as well. Crews will begin work on three sections of highway, and much of the work will require motorists to be escorted through the construction zones ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights. The justices' 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald ...
Later this month, KU will end its 2025 fiscal year having nearly eliminated a $50 million budget deficit on its Lawrence campus. There won’t be much time to party, though. The university is projecting a more than $20 million deficit for the next fiscal year, as a new set of financial ...
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term "the big ...
TOPEKA — A small percentage of funds stolen from Kansas’ unemployment system during the pandemic have been recovered, the state labor secretary says, but time is running out to find the rest. The Kansas Department of Labor processed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent ...
The house has come down on college athletics. Named after a suing student-athlete, the class action lawsuit commonly known as House v. NCAA had its long-awaited settlement approved earlier this month. Beginning July 1, college athletic programs can start handing out about $20.5 million worth ...