Kansas City, Mo. — A 25-year veteran was chosen Thursday to lead the Kansas City, Mo., police department, which is embroiled in internal and external controversies. The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners chose Stacey Graves, the current acting deputy chief, making her the first woman ...
A federal lawsuit contends the election system used in Dodge City prevents the city's large Latino population from electing representatives to the city commission. The lawsuit filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups argues the current method allowing citywide ...
A University of Kansas department has received nearly $1 million in federal funding to develop new radar systems to collect greater amounts of data about melting ice sheets and their impact on climate change. The KU-based Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems has received the ...
COLBY — The board that advises the Kansas governor and Legislature on water policy now says the state needs to dramatically cut farming irrigation to stop draining the Ogallala aquifer. The vote by the Kansas Water Authority on Wednesday signals a call for a major shift in state policy. For ...
TOPEKA — The operator of a pipeline with the largest onshore crude oil spill in nine years has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture. Canada-based TC Energy said in a statement Wednesday night that its Keystone system ...
The University of Kansas hopes to raise at least $150 million from donors to fund its football stadium renovation and gateway project near 11th and Mississippi streets. “We believe to take full advantage of what could be out there, we need to raise $150 million at a minimum,” KU ...