TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is likely to have pockets of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom, and public health officials believe it could become the state’s dominant strain,…

Just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner reported that 1.37 million customers — businesses and households — in the Houston region still had no power. “I know people are angry and frustrated,” he…

Roger and Billie Collins By Melissa Genoble Let’s take a journey back 32 years to Roger’s 27th birthday, Feb. 1, 1989. It was a day unlike any other. It was the day he met the…

The Kansas Legislature has decided to wade into the fraught issue of schools and COVID-19 — by looking to undermine public education. As The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Andrew Bahl wrote last week: “The debate over education…

By Christina Richards My romantic love story is about my husband’s and my love story that started over 20 years ago.   We met in Lawrence while we were both teenagers. As high-schoolers, we both…

COLONY — The Koons Feed and Produce store here was completely destroyed last night in the second disastrous fire which has struck Colony during the last 10 days. For a time the entire business district…

By Retabess Ling  My love story began on a Friday evening in March of 1946. My family had moved the first of March from a farm near Moran to a farm northeast of Iola. I…

Dear Carolyn: Both of my grown boys have mental health issues, including addiction. The last few years have been challenging. I recently found out one of my sons had a one-night stand with a woman…

TOPEKA — Operators of the regional power grid again ordered utilities to implement rolling blackouts Tuesday morning to conserve natural gas and electricity as bitterly cold temperatures plunged to double-digit negatives. The rare, emergency action…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — An Arizona woman charged in connection with the Jan. 6 onslaught of the U.S. Capitol bragged in a Snapchat video that she was recently recruited by a Kansas City chapter…