State News

Two Neosho County juveniles were struck and killed by a train as it crossed a bridge spanning the Neosho River near Erie Wednesday. The Kansas Highway Patrol said Arthur Pollries, 16, Walnut, and Kollin Showalter,…

TOPEKA — Jessie Lawson made an appointment for Monday morning as soon as she heard about the Kansas Court of Appeals ruling Friday that allows Kansans to change the gender markers on their licenses. As…

Miles down a gravel road marked “X”, singing, laughing and music filled a tallgrass prairie pasture Saturday afternoon as the Symphony in the Flint Hills hosted its “Grande Finale” Saturday, hosting people for an afternoon…

The Feed the Future Initiative helped connect agricultural research at 17 labs — based at land grant universities throughout the U.S. — with foreign partners in an Obama-era effort to address global hunger. Now only…

TOPEKA — Thousands of Kansans participated in “No Kings” rallies Saturday as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump’s administration.  In Kansas, demonstrations included those held in Pittsburg, Lawrence, Ottawa, Lenexa, Salina, Kansas…

TOPEKA — A small percentage of funds stolen from Kansas’ unemployment system during the pandemic have been recovered, the state labor secretary says, but time is running out to find the rest. The Kansas Department…

Cyclists will be able to ride nearly 100 miles of uninterrupted trail in eastern Kansas thanks to a new bridge near Ottawa. The Flint Hills Trail runs from Osawatomie to Council Grove. It offers views…

TOPEKA — Tools for small business owners are now available through the Kansas Small Business Office, leaders with the Kansas Department of Commerce announced Tuesday while highlighting the need to encourage entrepreneurship and business development…

TOPEKA — A state judicial nominating commission unanimously recommended Tuesday that Gov. Laura Kelly choose from among two eastern Kansas district court judges and a soft-spoken attorney in private practice to fill an impending vacancy…

TOPEKA — Justin Gilpin visited a remote, windswept camp in northern Kenya serving hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan. “To be able to see that and witness…