NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle, so it gets nearer…

For more than 30 years, the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) has helped individuals and families in Anderson, Franklin, and Osage counties make healthier food and lifestyle choices.  The program, however, came…

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool. Dozens of centers are…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after two judges issued rulings requiring it to keep the nation’s largest food aid program running. The U.S. Department of Agriculture,…

Allen Community College and Pittsburg State University have created a new pathway for students to pursue a degree in technology management. The articulation agreement, signed Monday in Wichita,  allows students who complete a technical associate…

BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The…

TOPEKA — State and local leaders gathered Thursday at the new Robert B. Docking State Office Building to celebrate completion of the three-year, $120 million project. It took more than a decade for the state…

Iola Elementary School students dressed as monsters, princesses, superheroes and everything in between during their annual Halloween parade Friday afternoon. 

Coffey County is throwing its hat into the ring to bring in a second nuclear power plant. County commissioners approved this month a resolution declaring their interest in becoming home to a cutting-edge Natrium nuclear…

As food pantry shelves in Southeast Kansas should be filling for the holidays, they are instead beginning to go bare, the demand is so great. That’s because of the fear that the federal Supplemental Nutrition…