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 ...
Kansas Lt. Gov. David Toland was in Lawrence Friday to celebrate the official opening of a multimillion dollar affordable housing project in downtown, but also urged that the celebration should only last a short time. Community members need to get busy building the next big project, because ...