TOPEKA — The Kansas attorney general and a Shawnee County judge approved a wrongful-conviction settlement of more than $200,000 for a man who stood trial three times for a series of criminal sexual offenses before…
WYANDOTTE COUNTY — Although Wyandotte County has yet to see a reported measles outbreak, public health officials are readying public guidance and offering vaccine services as the disease inches north from southwest Kansas. As of…
TOPEKA — Merck Animal Health will build an $895 million capital expansion project and add 200 jobs at its De Soto manufacturing facility, Gov. Laura Kelly and the company announced Thursday. Merck will invest $860…
TOPEKA — The Grain Belt Express, an 800-mile electric transmission line to be built through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, announced $1.7 billion in contractor awards on Wednesday. The awards were made to Quanta Services…
TOPEKA — The Wichita area reported its first case of measles on Wednesday, an announcement that moves this highly contagious disease out of rural southwest Kansas counties and into a major metropolitan area. Kansas is…
A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb in Wichita said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane manufacturing plant across the street has created “a blight…
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly sent letters to the five Republicans and one Democrat in the Kansas congressional delegation urging the federal lawmakers to resist pressure to vote for Medicaid cuts that would deny health…
Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at Bethany Park in Kansas City, Kansas, for the Central Avenue Betterment Assocation’s annual Cinco De Mayo celebration. For the past several years, the event has been a chance for…
Kansas’ Affordable Housing Tax Credit passed with bipartisan support in 2022, but it’s now on the chopping block after lawmakers voted to phase it out. The program matches federal dollars with state money to incentivize…
TOPEKA — The Trump administration defunded 16 of 17 Feed the Future labs across the country when it began wiping out U.S. Agency for International Development projects. After months in limbo, Kansas State University found…