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 ...

Pregnant women in Douglas County have better access to maternity care than women in much of Kansas, statewide data indicates, especially as compared to rural areas — a growing concern for health officials in the state. Care for high-risk pregnancies is concentrated in three main urban ...

The Kansas Corporation Commission is set to hold its final public hearing on a rate request by Evergy that would increase the typical residential electric bill by more than $13 per month. The KCC will hold a hearing at 6 p.m. on Monday at the Washburn Institute of Technology, located at 5724 ...

For the first time in nearly two years, transgender Kansans will once again be able to change the gender marker on their state-issued driver’s license. A panel of three judges on the Kansas Court of Appeals reversed a previous decision by Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson ...

There was an expectation Thursday that the chancellor and university presidents might get raises from the Kansas Board of Regents. Instead, Regents delivered — without any discussion — a new policy on how the leaders of the state’s universities should be paid, and left open the question ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is lending her support to a California lawsuit seeking to end a National Guard deployment that President Donald Trump has ordered in response to immigration-related protests in California. Kelly on Thursday signed her name to an amicus brief that is part of the ...