TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials announced Friday that they had signed a new contract for medical services at prisons amid mounting frustrations with the current health care provider. The Kansas Department of Corrections said…

COVID-19 is reminding us that many mundane aspects of governing actually matter, and that leaving unglamorous problems insufficiently addressed can come back to bite us. The information technology (IT) problems facing the Kansas Department of…

On the door by the water fountain is a sticky note I recently received from Maude Burns.  It reads, “Thanks to all of you for hanging in there to furnish a good hometown paper.”  I’m…

COLONY — Organizers of the Colony/Crest Alumni Reunion have canceled the 2020 reunion, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Alumni officers said the decision to cancel the May 30 event rather than postpone it was…

BEIJING (AP) — China acknowledged Friday that the coronavirus death toll in the one-time epicenter city of Wuhan was nearly 50% higher than reported,  underscoring just how seriously the official numbers of infections and deaths…

LONDON (AP) — Wish you could travel to a faraway island during the lockdown? The Faroe Islands are offering remote tourism, where web users can control a real life tour guide to trek around the…

As President Donald Trump and his economic advisers look to start reopening the U.S. economy in May, a central question is emerging for companies with supply chains stretching across North America: What if Mexico and…

Allen County remains one of the few counties in Southeast Kansas without a report of a positive COVID-19 coronavirus case.  Elsewhere in the region, Anderson and Elk counties also have not reported any positive cases.…

Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Allen Community College Board of Trustees was a whirlwind summary of the changes institutions of higher education have had to make in response to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past…

Hernan Cortes fled the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1520 under blistering military assault, losing the bulk of his troops on his escape to the coast. But the Spanish conquistador unknowingly left behind a weapon far…