TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ new Democratic governor on Tuesday reinstated a ban on anti-LGBT bias in state agencies’ employment decisions that a Republican predecessor had repealed, and she also expanded the policy to cover…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is expected to make a pitch to the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature for boosting spending on public schools and expanding Medicaid. Kelly was scheduled to deliver her…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With shutdown negotiations deadlocked, the White House planned further meetings with rank-and-file lawmakers today, as the Trump administration acknowledged the prolonged standoff over his border wall funding demands is having a greater…

NEW ORLEANS — There’s a written-in-the-stars feel to this weekend’s NFL playoff games, a synchronicity that goes beyond the fact that both conference championship games are rematches from earlier this season. Maybe it’s that, for…

This, too, shall pass. It always helps to remember that. Just the same, it takes a lot to disperse lingering ghosts, doesn’t it? Especially when the paranoia was almost tangible among Chiefs fans, who have…

Dorothy Estep Samford passed away at Via Christi Village in Pittsburg, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, at the age of 94.    She was born Sept. 25, 1924 to Virgil Ray Estep and Nina Alice…

Dinah L. Moore, of Iola, passed away Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. She was born July 5, 1955, to Reuben and Helen Hill. Both parents preceded her in death. Survivors include two brothers, Roland Hill, Kansas…

As a community, we’re in the midst of a transition. Our economy is changing, in impressive and positive ways. The bedrocks of our local economy are agriculture, natural resources, and industry, but now tourism, especially…

The Iowa Constitution states, in an amendment voters passed overwhelmingly in 1998: “All men and women are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights — among which are those of enjoying and…

Two Kirkland, Wash., police officers who recently asked a black man to leave a frozen yogurt shop at the shop owner’s request did not violate department policy, an internal review has found. But far from…