TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents may raise to 75 the number of credit hours that could be transferred from a community college to a state university following success of a two-year pilot involving…

TOPEKA — New members of an advisory panel tasked with determining how to use federal aid balked Wednesday at the idea of using $1 million for a lottery to incentivize inoculation from COVID-19. GOP leaders…

TOPEKA — Kansas officials are extending and expanding access to a federal relief program for vulnerable families whose children were without school meals because of the pandemic. Pandemic EBT program funds for the 2020-21 school…

Tuesday, June 22, 2021, James “Jim” Shomaker left on a journey from this world. Jim was born Jan. 30, 1942, at home in Hiattville to Orville Shomaker and Maxine Gooding-Cuppet. He graduated from Stark High…

Allen County’s COVID-19 disaster declaration has ended. The decision came after emergency manager Jason Trego spoke with commissioners about ending the declaration to follow suit with the state. Commissioners then voted in favor of ending…

John “Punk” and Alzina Kress always knew they wanted to sell their business, Quality Automotive, Inc., to longtime employee Bob Cook. That ownership change will be official July 1, but it came with a bittersweet…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ sweeping attempt to rewrite U.S. election and voting law suffered a major setback in the Senate Tuesday, blocked by a filibuster wall of Republican opposition to what would be the…

TOPEKA — More than 100 cases of the COVID-19 variant first identified in India and given the shorthand name Delta have been diagnosed in Kansas, prompting public anxiety this variety could cause more severe illness…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police are asking the City Council to approve a federal partnership in an effort to address a surge in violent crime. The Wichita Eagle reports that police want help from…

DETROIT (AP) — When it was new, the window sticker price on a typical 2019 Toyota Tacoma SR double cab pickup was just under $29,000. Two years later, dealers are paying almost $1,000 more than…