ADAMUZ, Spain (AP) — Regional Spanish officials said Monday that at least 40 people are confirmed dead in a high-speed rail collision the previous night in the country’s south when the tail end of a train jumped…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly wasn’t alone in questioning a rule that confined singing in the Capitol rotunda to the lunch hour and stood in the way of people eager to perform “Lift Every Voice…

TOPEKA — Kansas’ top health agency is sticking with the longstanding childhood immunization schedule instead of implementing new guidelines released Jan. 5 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, a state spokeswoman said.…

On Wednesday morning, Troy Smith learned almost half the funding for the 31st Judicial District’s drug court program had been eliminated as of the previous evening.  Smith directs the drug court program, which works to…

Gas resident Karen Trester’s life was nearly cut short before it even had a chance to begin. At just six months old, Trester survived a railroad crossing accident in Iola that killed three members of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to…

Allen County residents now receive emergency notifications through a new alert system, Genasys, following the county’s transition away from the long-used CodeRED platform. County commissioners unanimously approved the change in August 2025, with the new…

TOPEKA — Hundreds of Kansans chanted “f*** ICE,” carried pointed and sometime profane signs, and sang protest songs Wednesday as they flooded the second floor of the Statehouse to rally for human rights. Fourteen groups,…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the…