Month: February 2026

The arrest and detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the Minnesota 5-year-old in a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack, has drawn the attention — and the ire — of the nation. As an immigration…

Wallace Lee Hart passed away Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. He was born Nov. 15, 1928, in Sand Point, Idaho, to George W. Hart and Stella (Smith) Hart. He was preceded in death by his wife,…

TOPEKA — Participants in Kansas’ Learning Quest education savings plans will find new investment options, updated tools to determine education costs and lower fees beginning in March when a new program manager takes over, the…

Iola’s newly established land bank is open for business. This bank is not a financial institution in a traditional sense. You can’t go in and ask for a loan, or even make a deposit. In…

For decades, heart disease was widely viewed as a man’s disease. That misconception lingered until the early 2000s, when research found that heart disease kills more women than all forms of cancer combined. Today, heart…

TOPEKA — House Democrats heckled Leavenworth Republican Rep. Pat Proctor’s latest idea to undermine advance voting after he forced a hearing on a bill that nobody was willing to support. Proctor, who chairs the House…

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos returned home to Minnesota on Sunday, Feb. 1, with his father, ending a detention that carried the Columbia Heights preschooler hundreds of miles from his school and family and turned him…