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…

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert will retire later this month, an announcement from the court said. Luckert suffered a stroke in October that led to a car accident. She relinquished public-facing duties…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate voted Tuesday to clamp down on public school protests by requiring students to secure parental permission to participate and by imposing penalties on districts complicit in organizing protests or meek…

PARSONS — The makers of a planned mile-deep nuclear reactor will host a public meeting for Parsons and Labette County residents Wednesday, March 12. The meeting is the first such public gathering since Deep Fission,…

If your childhood toys from the 1980s are still tucked away in a closet, attic, or boxed up in a basement, there’s a national museum in Kansas City that might be interested in taking them…