Fires that erupted across Kansas continued to burn Thursday as the state responded to a wind-whipped storm that also churned up dust and reduced visibility for drivers, causing three fatalities.
The storm system on Wednesday carried winds that reached up to 90 mph in some areas. The winds ...
OMAHA, Neb. — At least five people died as a powerful and extremely unusual storm system swept across the Great Plains and Midwest amid unseasonably warm temperatures, spawning hurricane-force winds and possible tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota.
In southeastern Minnesota, Olmsted ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' state health department has identified a potential case of COVID-19 caused by the omicron variant, Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday.
Kelly told reporters after a public event that health officials believed they had identified two potential omicron variant cases this past ...
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has a financial interest in the sale of natural gas, prompting calls for him to disclose more information about his earnings as he investigates gas companies for potential price gouging during February’s severe freeze.
Schmidt, the state’s top law ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As former Kansas Department of Health and Environment secretary Lee Norman managed the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he found himself at the center of a cultural battle between individual rights and the collective good.
The way he sees it, blind ...
LABETTE COUNTY — Voters in southeast Kansas managed to do something that state law makes difficult when they voted earlier this month to recall their county commissioner.
The vote to remove Labette County Commissioner Brian Kinzie from office isn't quite official, but he has conceded that ...