TOPEKA — The $1.25 billion biocontainment facility in Manhattan developed for cutting-edge research on the most dangerous animal diseases is not fully operational three years after its ribbon-cutting, a federal report determined.  The Office of…

EL DORADO — Andrew Ellmaker, an inmate at El Dorado Correctional Facility, died in custody Tuesday. Ellmaker, 39 was found unresponsive in his cell, according to a Kansas Department of Corrections press release. Staff and…

TOPEKA — From Lebanon, Kansas, the geographic center of the contiguous United States, the Rev. Adam Hamilton began his general election campaign for U.S. Senate. Before launching on Tuesday his debut general election ad, Hamilton…

TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education is pushing ahead with drafting recommendations for public school districts on use of technology in classrooms and crafting a potential mandate that local school boards implement policies…

TOPEKA — Kansas won’t change its vaccine schedule to match the executive order from President Donald Trump but instead will continue to “trust in scientific evidence” and follow recommendations from major health organizations, a spokeswoman…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that…

ERIE — A jury Wednesday convicted former Neosho County Attorney Linus Thuston of lying under oath two years ago when he offered an excuse for why he was meeting a woman alone at night in…

WELLINGTON — Lex Goff, a recent Wellington High School graduate, is one step closer to making Kansas political history. If elected this November, Goff would become the youngest person ever to serve in the Kansas…

FORT SCOTT — For a fleeting few months, Fort Scott’s Sekan Printing is running the largest solar-battery system in southeast Kansas. The family-owned commercial printing company recently went online with 300kW of solar power, paired…

TOPEKA — Kansas is on course for its smallest winter wheat harvest since the 1950s, with a July report showing the state’s farmers are expected to produce almost half the number of bushels they did…