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 ...

TOPEKA — A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor. In two of the four agreements, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office also crafted a statement admitting ...

It had been 72 hours since Ken Hush had taken over as interim president of his alma mater, Emporia State University. Despite growing up in Emporia, Hush wouldn’t exactly say he was comfortable in his new setting. He had spent more than 20 years as a successful executive with Wichita-based ...