MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and,…

OLATHE — The state has put a “thumb on the scale against abortion,” attorney Alice Wang said Tuesday in arguments for a temporary injunction to block long-standing abortion restrictions in Kansas. Over the span of…

TOPEKA — Reports of burglary, murder and rape declined statewide in 2022, according to an annual report, though numbers have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s annual Crime Index Report…

TOPEKA — The Kansas congressional delegation found rare agreement while weighing amendments to the U.S. Department of Defense budget bill by jointly opposing reduction in the number of nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles deployed in…

Teen charged with killing grandfather PARSONS — A rural Cherryvale teenager has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting and killing his grandfather on July 5. Trenton Scott Anderson, 14, had a detention hearing on…

Every town has its own unique story, traveling a path filled with twists and turns as the years march on. Seth Varner, a 23-year-old college student from Nebraska, is making it his goal to make…

TOPEKA — Collection of income and sales taxes by the state of Kansas in the just-completed fiscal year reached $10.16 billion to surpass the previous year’s revenue deposits by more than $400 million, officials said…

TOPEKA — One year after federal abortion protections were removed, the reproductive rights debate in Kansas remains contentious.  On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…

TOPEKA — A new Medicaid report finds more than $1.3 million may have been overpaid to managed care organizations due to slow information provision, causing Kansas Medicaid programs to pay members after they left the…

TOPEKA — Enforcement of a Kansas abortion law based in junk science has been indefinitely delayed, in what abortion providers call a temporary relief for a “dangerous and misleading” practice. On Tuesday, Kansas abortion providers…