Erik Murray is on a mission. The Kansas City, Kansas businessman is running for U.S. Senate, hoping to dislodge Roger Marshall and become the first Democrat since 1932 to represent Kansas in the Senate. The…

Allen Community College will be closed to the public Friday as employees begin training on a new student information system being implemented this month. Cami Keitel, Allen’s vice president for student affairs, told trustees Tuesday…

If the sentence handed to the media mogul Jimmy Lai was meant to surprise, it would have been shorter.  Twenty years behind bars is not a burst of rage. It is a sentence designed to…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadians were in shock Wednesday after authorities said seven people were killed at a school in remote British Columbia and two others were killed at a nearby home in one…

TOPEKA — CoreCivic argued Tuesday for the right to begin holding prisoners in its closed Leavenworth facility, even as the company is working through a local permit process that could make the court case irrelevant.…

OLATHE  — As dozens of local officials and advocates recently took a peek at Maura Heft’s new three-bedroom home, she proudly showed off her spacious kitchen with dark wood cabinets and joyfully explained that the…

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson decided last week that he would try to clarify to the pope what the Bible says on immigration. This was in response to Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Catholic Bishops’…

More than a year after the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the economic aftershocks of the disaster still permeate the lives of the people who survived it.  Fewer than a dozen homes in some of the…

Even if the administration has temporarily backed off threats to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minnesota, the idea will come up again.  That’s partly because the power — which would allow the…

YATES CENTER — After a dominating individual performance by Yates Center junior guard Cayten Cummings, it took a team effort to finally bring down Central Heights Monday 41-35. Despite Cummings carrying the load for much…