COFFEYVILLE — A Kansas refinery has agreed to pay more than $23 million for violating the federal Clean Air Act and breaching a 2012 settlement for earlier pollution problems, the U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday. The federal agencies said the ...
When Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital closed in early 2019, the community of 7,550 people in southeast Kansas briefly lost its emergency room. Mayor Matthew Wells remembers the time without an ER clearly. “I watched several people, two in particular that I’ve known my whole life, die with ...
There was a time not long ago that Jay Kalbas, Kansas’ new state geologist, had about 30 billion reasons to be excited about his job. As a master of the subsurface, Kalbas was leading teams of geologists and scientists who were helping to find game-changing amounts of oil beneath the ocean ...
GIRARD — Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that he grew it out to connect with his cultural heritage. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas warned the district in a letter Friday that the ...
TOPEKA — The Republican attorney general in Kansas is appealing a state judge’s ruling that has blocked enforcement of multiple abortion restrictions, including a new limit on medication and an older rule forcing patients to wait 24 hours before they can get the procedure. Attorney General ...
University of Kansas students living and dining on the KU campus should expect about a 5% increase in prices next year. While that price increase will be meaningful — it will push the price of KU’s average housing and dining plan to about $11,000 per year — future plans for KU dormitory ...