Having a day care means getting to celebrate Christmas with children, years after your own are grown. Donna Ross of Moran has been watching area children for more than 40 years. Each year at Christmastime,…

TOPEKA — Economic disruption in Kansas associated with COVID-19 contributed to demise of 115 family home child-care providers in the pandemic’s first year and left nearly one-fifth of the state’s counties without child care slots…

WICHITA, Kansas — Day cares, at a premium in Kansas in non-pandemic times, are essential businesses that can stay open while the state is under a stay-at-home order. Overall, they’re seeing a drop in the…