Barring a surprise at the wire, professional horse racing is set to return to Kansas. State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that creates potentially millions of dollars per year in funding to help restart horse racing and the horse breeding and stabling programs that come with ...
As current U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces questions about his leadership of the country’s military, a former U.S. defense secretary will be in Lawrence later this month to deliver a keynote address. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will deliver public remarks at 7 ...
The numbers of the moment have not been kind to universities across the state. At the University of Kansas, $40 million is the amount of budget pain leaders here worry about if new regulations are placed on how universities can spend federal grants from the National Institutes of Health. At ...
Columbia, Mo. — Planned Parenthood on Thursday resumed surgical abortions in St. Louis, months after voters in November enshrined abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution. The same day, the state health department effectively blocked medication abortions throughout Missouri. The ...
A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has "a possible link" to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico that have sickened more than 370, the state health department said Wednesday. And health officials in Ohio say a single case identified in Ashtabula County has ...
In the first 50 days of the new Trump administration, ICE said it made over 32,000 immigration-related arrests in communities across the country — nearly as many as in all of 2024. But that trend doesn’t seem to have reached Kansas. Despite online rumors of immigration raids, authorities ...