The sharp-eyed birds lift into flight the moment you open the door. The canny squirrels and darting lizards are up a tree at the first oof of your footfall. To study such cautious creatures, you need a…

Ask a high school student about the last book they read, and you may be disappointed to learn they never cracked open The Catcher in the Rye or trudged through Shakespeare. Instead, they turned to…

Myrlanne Smith of Moran came into the newspaper office earlier this week to cancel a subscription she had provided for a grandson. “They won’t let him have it any more,” she said, referring to the…

City of Olathe Project RZ25-0007 — a 140-foot-tall cold storage warehouse bordering Lone Elm Park — is winding through the city’s approval process. The owner, the $18 billion corporation Lineage, Inc., expects public incentives: industrial…

Susan Monarez’s 28-day tenure as the nation’s top public-health official was doomed from the start. Her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wanted her to do two things: champion his dubious anti-vaccine agenda and uphold “gold-standard…

The assassination of Charlie Kirk — the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize modern conservatism — at Utah Valley University on Wednesday is a tragedy. His killing is also part of a…

President Trump thought he could negotiate peace in Ukraine with his friend Vladimir Putin, and perhaps it was worth a shot. Yet the Russian has offered nothing but brutal escalation for eight months, and now…

President Donald Trump is trying to stop $4 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid from being spent, without Congress’s permission.  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. this week allowed him to pause the spending, but…

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists robbed America of more than 3,000 lives, wounding our nation in a way we had not known since the shock of Pearl Harbor.  In bringing down the World Trade Center, damaging the…

In 1979, I bought my first parcel of farmland. It was near Tribune, and I was a proud new landowner. As I recall, the purchase price was $350 per acre. Today, that land is probably…