HUMBOLDT — “It takes a lot to run a city,” is how Cole Herder, Humboldt city administrator, began Wednesday’s conversation about the upcoming city budget hearing.   Not that he expects any pushback.   But…

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and more than a dozen other Democratic governors cautioned President Donald Trump against deploying states’ National Guard. Kelly, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and Democratic governors across the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘s current deputy. The…

Centers for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez has been fired after less than a month on the job amid a sprawling feud with President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over what…

TOPEKA — Kansas officials brought clarity to a new law that bans financial contributions from foreign nationals to campaigns for or against state constitutional amendments, a law at the center of an ongoing lawsuit. The…

OVERLAND PARK — Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman pushed for deepening relationships and maintaining international growth opportunities for Kansas farmers at a meeting of state political and agricultural leaders Wednesday. Glickman and U.S.…

For Taylor West, the path to becoming Iola Baptist Church’s youth pastor has been a winding one — stretching from small-town Colorado to rural Iowa classrooms, summer camps, and now, southeast Kansas. West, 32, officially…

It’s been a hectic week for Gabe and Myra Gleason. The owners of Wild Bloom Coffee have been closed since Monday as part of their kitchen expansion, a significant step in continuing their vision of…

RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Investigators were examining the videos, writings and movements of the shooter who fired through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding 17 people, for connections to the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a major air attack early Thursday on Kyiv that included a rare strike on the city center, killing at least 19 people, wounding 48 and damaging European Union diplomatic…