Columbia, Mo. — Abortions can resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution. Friday’s ruling came after a Kansas City judge ruled last year that abortions were now ...

LIBERTY, Mo. — An 86-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake. Andrew Lester was scheduled to stand trial next week on charges of first-degree assault and armed ...

The University of Kansas is expecting enrollment on its Lawrence campus to grow again next year — but after that, community leaders likely shouldn’t expect much future growth in student numbers. That’s partially by design, members of the Kansas Board of Regents were told on Wednesday. ...

TOPEKA — Academic leaders of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University said Tuesday legislation retroactively abolishing property rights inherent in tenure would run off distinguished educators, undercut faculty recruiting, destroy research programs, trigger an exodus of students ...

From his Baldwin City ranch that dates back to his grandfather, Ted Madl remembers how Kansas horse racing was decades ago. It was never champagne, fancy hats and other accoutrements that you might find in Kentucky or California. More often it was thinly paved highways to small locales with a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports. The order, titled "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," gives federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide ...