Three years from now, passengers may zip around the continent on airplanes propelled by renewable jet fuel from Kansas. The key to producing this up-and-coming fuel? Soybeans. A Canadian company aims to build the state’s…

TOPEKA — Activists at the Statehouse are renewing a push for state lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana in Kansas. While Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and many state legislators from both parties support the concept, lawmakers…

TOPEKA — University of Kansas scientist Nancy Muma said the average person inadvertently accumulated in the body a credit-card sized amount of plastic each week by breathing air and consuming water. Muma, who earned a…

TOPEKA — Republican leaders of the Kansas Legislature said a two-thirds majority of House members were committed to overriding Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a tax reduction bill but a supermajority hadn’t crystalized in the…

The yellow buses lined up after school in the Ralls County School District look nearly identical. Except two of them aren’t like the others: they run on batteries. “It’s not as loud as the other…

This story, the first in an occasional series about water challenges facing the American heartland, is a partnership between Stateline and the Kansas Reflector. MOSCOW, Kansas — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road…

The surgeries were some of the most complex Dr. Nataliya Biskup had ever done. But that wasn’t the most difficult part of the Wichita doctor’s recent trip to Ukraine, where she helped operate on soldiers…

TOPEKA —  Two Kansas Republican lawmakers joined a Democratic colleague Thursday to stress the safety and necessity of vaccines, in an attempt to stave off misinformation in the Statehouse. Rep. Melissa Oropeza, D-Kansas City, Rep.…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House agriculture committee voted to perform a gut-and-go overhaul of a hemp regulation bill to narrow scope of the legislation to reductions in annual licensing fees for the plant’s producers and…

TOPEKA — The organization of Kansas county election officers told legislators Wednesday the membership opposed a Republican-sponsored bill that would prohibit counties from continuing the practice of mailing unsolicited advance ballot applications to registered voters.…