A group of current and former students is suing the Lawrence school district in federal court, alleging the district is using software technology to illegally conduct “drag-net searches and seizures” of the students’ digital files. The federal lawsuit filed earlier this month challenges ...

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly appointed an attorney in private practice who has argued cases before the state and federal appellate courts to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court. The governor said Thursday that she’d selected Larkin Walsh from among three finalists nominated by a ...

Topeka — A cheese manufacturing plant in western Kansas created hundreds of new jobs, but developers needed help building enough housing for the plant’s workers. The state program that helped fund 40 homes in a 227-home workforce housing development project in Dodge City did not receive ...

UPDATED 5:15 P.M. AUG. 6 The University of Kansas is implementing an immediate hiring freeze as KU’s top leaders are ordering deans and other department heads to find $32 million in annual savings on the Lawrence campus. A Wednesday message to KU employees from Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer ...

The pilots of a U.S. Army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over Washington in January would’ve had difficulty spotting the plane while wearing night vision goggles, experts told the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday. The Army goggles would have made it difficult to ...

Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 people found the chopper was flying higher than it should have been and its altitude readings were inaccurate. The details came out of the first day of National ...