When Amy Trollinger isn’t driving her Toyota Corolla, she drives a white rental van. Not just for fun, but because she needs lots of room to accommodate giant coolers full of frozen breast milk. Trollinger works for the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition, a nonprofit aimed at promoting and ...
TOPEKA — Favorable fall conditions for wheat planting gave way to a warmer-than-usual winter and spring cold snaps, placing Kansas wheat crop in a precarious situation. Kansas State University experts also warned in a recent memo of disease emerging in wheat fields in nine Kansas ...
A Lawrence woman is making national headlines for being detained 30 hours by U.S. custom officers after admitting that she had voted in a Lawrence City Commission and school board election, despite not being a U.S. citizen. An investigation by the nonprofit news site Propublica highlighted ...
TOPEKA — Kansas utility regulators handed a win Tuesday to landowners concerned about a transmission line bisecting large swaths of prairie grassland in the state’s south-central region. The Kansas Corporation Commission voted unanimously to approve part of Evergy’s proposed ...
COLDWATER, Kansas — The former mayor of Coldwater has been ordered to report to federal immigration detention after pleading guilty to voting illegally as a noncitizen. Former Mayor Joe Ceballos has been ordered to report to the Immigration Customs Enforcement Detention Office in Wichita ...
LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic’s newly reopened prison is holding about 250 immigration detainees, a slower ramp-up to full capacity than expected, an official said Monday. Misty Mackey, warden of the Midwest Regional Reception Center, said that while the company expected to move to capacity of ...