State News

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at Bethany Park in Kansas City, Kansas, for the Central Avenue Betterment Assocation’s annual Cinco De Mayo celebration. For the past several years, the event has been a chance for…

Kansas’ Affordable Housing Tax Credit passed with bipartisan support in 2022, but it’s now on the chopping block after lawmakers voted to phase it out. The program matches federal dollars with state money to incentivize…

TOPEKA — The Trump administration defunded 16 of 17 Feed the Future labs across the country when it began wiping out U.S. Agency for International Development projects. After months in limbo, Kansas State University found…

FORT SCOTT — Freeman Health Systems announced Tuesday that it likely will not be until fall until the former Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott will be open for business, according to the Parsons Morning Sun.…

Health care providers in Sedgwick County are preparing for the potential return of measles to the area for the first time in nearly a decade. An outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory virus in Kansas…

TOPEKA — Analysis of potential congressional cuts to Medicaid indicated Kansas’ loss of nearly $350 million in the first year and more than $3 billion over 10 years could shrink coverage for vulnerable populations, escalate…

TOPEKA — Fear that federal funding cuts will mean loved ones won’t receive nutritional food and safety checks through Meals on Wheels is driving an increase of calls to agencies across Kansas. “It’s scary,” said…

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill Friday she feared would funnel more public money to private educational institutions. Senate Bill 24 broadened the scope of the Kansas Promise Scholarship, which offers financial…

TOPEKA — Surrounded by the shouts and chatter of children playing, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday signed legislation consolidating the state’s early childhood services under one department and supporting creation of more child care…

LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Nestled into the crook of a wooded two-lane highway on the edge of northeast Kansas, a complex of concrete and barbed wire sits mostly vacant — for now. For over a decade,…