Leaders at Kansas State University plan to remove the word “diversity” from the school’s mission statement to comply with a new state law. K-State’s previous mission statement, approved in December 2008, says the university “embraces…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents answered political pressure to avoid aggressive 2026 budget requests for public universities and colleges by endorsing a plan calling for a $4.6 million cut from the current year’s…

For Iola High School students, the path from classroom to career is getting clearer thanks to a new initiative that invites local businesses and community members to step inside the school and share their expertise.…

Goodlife Innovations, an organization that provides community-based supports for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, will close its Iola Day Center, effective Nov. 7. The news was announced in a letter to its clients earlier…

NEODESHA — The Neodesha Promise Scholarship Program, which provides an opportunity for Neodesha High School graduates to afford college, has reached quite a milestone. With 36 NHS students receiving promise scholarships in 2025, the program…

NORTH CODORUS, Pa. (AP) — Police returning to a home in the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania in search of a suspected stalker who may have been trespassing encountered a barrage of gunfire that left…

PARIS (AP) — Marching with thousands of other protesters in Paris, hospital nurse Aya Touré put her finger on the pulse of many who took to streets across France on Thursday against the government of…

Two Russian oil refineries were attacked on Thursday as Ukraine stepped up strikes on its enemy’s energy infrastructure. Gazprom’s Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical facility in the Bashkortostan region was set on fire after being hit by…

The European Union proposed suspending Israel’s preferential trade benefits as part of a new package of sanctions in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza. The European Commission, the E.U. executive’s arm, proposed on…

LAWRENCE — An attorney representing 78-year-old Earl Ray Harris asked the Kansas Court of Appeals to toss a felony conviction resulting from a protest against public employees who were digging a ditch on his land…