MONTEZUMA — Orville Williams has had a healthy wheat crop on his 2,600-acre farm in Montezuma, Kansas, every year since he was a teenager. It hasn't always been easy. For instance, there were challenging economic times through the 1980s and various degrees of drought affecting his yield ...

University of Kansas leaders are proposing a 5% increase in tuition and fees for the average student next school year, as administrators said the additional money is needed primarily to boost salaries on campus. KU and the state’s other public universities presented their recommendations to ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Corrections signed a two-year contract with a private healthcare company based in Topeka to provide medical services for 10,000 inmates at the state’s eight adult prisons and the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex. The deal with VitalCore Health ...

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Rosen says internal budget reallocation allows for a 1% salary increase among non-judicial employees to match raises granted by the Legislature for state employees in the executive branch. The Legislature adjourned the 2026 session without ...

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 ...