Dozens of Labette County residents and city leaders gathered Thursday in Parsons to hear from representatives of a company planning a 1-mile underground nuclear reactor. Some locals raised concerns while the company tried to make…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House unanimously approved Wednesday a bill forbidding any state agency from serving as receiver of the Texas-based business granted a state bank charter five years ago but since then undermined by…

LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic will reopen its private prison in Leavenworth to house immigration detainees after city commissioners approved the company’s special use permit on Tuesday, the result of a process one commissioner called “agonizing.” Two…

TOPEKA — Sen. Caryn Tyson, who labels herself “Tax Cutting Tyson,” successfully pitched to fellow senators a budget amendment creating a state revenue lockbox dedicated to reducing the property tax mill levy supporting K-12 public…

MANHATTAN — Six couples will be honored on March 13 as the 2026 class of Kansas Master Farm Families in recognition of their leadership in agriculture, environmental stewardship and service to their communities. The statewide…

State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance program, according to…

TOPEKA — Servicemembers in a Kansas Air National Guard air refueling wing deployed in support of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in conjunction with votes by the U.S. Senate and U.S. House to reject a…

Supersized water and ice kiosks continue to pop up in the Midwest. The owners of these standalone kiosks advertise their products as safer and purer than tap water. But researchers from the University of Iowa…

TOPEKA — A brigade of tech sector lobbyists flooded a Kansas committee with information and advocacy before legislators weighed a bill that would require age verification in app stores. Apple and Google “heavily lobbied” committee…

Owning sawed-off shotguns and silencers without federal registration is illegal in Kansas, but state lawmakers and National Rifle Association lawsuits are trying to change that. A bevy of federal lawsuits attempting to overturn the National Firearms…