TOPEKA — Emporia State University President Ken Hush announced his retirement Thursday, nodding at past and future challenges in higher education. Hush, an Emporia State graduate, wrote in an email to alumni, staff and students…

TOPEKA — High temperatures this week drew a caution from the regional organization that ensures reliability of the power grid and led Evergy to ask some customers to conserve energy usage. The Southwest Power Pool…

Iola native David Toland, the state’s secretary of commerce and lieutenant governor, will not run for governor in 2026. The Kansas Reflector reported Tuesday that Toland ruled out a run for governor and any other…

TOPEKA — Kansas Department of Commerce secretary David Toland shared with state legislators his frustration with the third state audit of Kansas’ use of federal infrastructure grants aimed at revitalizing the economy in the wake…

Come January 2027, Kansas will have a new governor. Democrat Laura Kelly has already won the job twice, making her ineligible to run again. The primary election isn’t until Aug. 4, 2026, but 11 candidates…

Most of the Kansas Forest Service’s budget for this fiscal year might simply not show up. That’s the fear — with just 2.5 months left in the federal fiscal year — as the Trump administration…

In rural Dane County, Wisconsin, a developer wants to build a data center campus with 15 buildings over the next decade. Texas will serve as the home base for Stargate, a $500 billion effort to…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration confirmed Friday that it’s releasing funds that support before- and after-school programs as well as summer programs, a portion of the $6.8 billion in withheld funds for K-12 schools that were…

TOPEKA — A Leavenworth District Court judge finalized his decision to bar CoreCivic from housing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prisoners at its closed facility, rejecting the private prison company’s appeal to reconsider. Judge John…

WEIR — Johanna Schmid and her husband, Steve Hench, live in an older home in Weir, Kansas. Their lives are busy — they have five kids. Three of those kids are under the age of…