State and Region

‘Everyone’s scared’: Transgender Kansans brace for sweeping new law to take effect

WICHITA — Thea Howard worried that coming out as a transgender woman would cost her the job she’s held for six-plus years. “That was my fear — that I would be fired when I came out,” she said. When it became unbearable to keep hiding who she was at work, she told the board members ...

After years of controversy, national bio-defense lab opens in Kansas

MANHATTAN, Kan. — After more than a decade of controversy and delays, the nation's most secure biosecurity laboratory for research on potentially deadly animal and plant diseases has opened in Manhattan, Kansas. Although a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday, researchers at the $1.25 ...

Kansas woman dies after falling into creek in Glacier National Park

WEST GLACIER, Mont. — A 28-year-old woman from Kansas has died after falling into a creek in Glacier National Park and being swept into a gorge, park officials said. The woman fell from a rocky overhang into Avalanche Creek on Monday afternoon, spokesperson Gina Kerzman said. Bystanders ...

Biden judicial nominee withdraws from consideration in Kansas

Updated at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, May 24 WASHINGTON — A federal prosecutor tapped by President Joe Biden to become a U.S. district judge in Kansas has withdrawn from consideration, citing the nearly two-year wait for action on his nomination. Jabari Wamble is Biden's second judicial nominee ...