Due to two large grass fires on Wednesday that are now under control, Douglas County leaders have declared an emergency, ...

Fire crews from Douglas County, Lawrence and surrounding communities battled two grass fires Wednesday afternoon.

Nearly two-thirds of substance use disorder grant funding in the state comes from the federal government, according to a ...

The U.S. Department of Education cut $22.6 million in remaining COVID-era funding to Kansas that educators planned to use on ...

TOPEKA — Three Republicans and three Democrats in the House — including one from Lawrence — dropped their opposition Friday ...

Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

It expands psychiatric and forensic bed capacity in a region that has been waiting for this for far too long,” Gov. Laura ...

Election Day is Tuesday, April 8 for the Kansas City school and special election and other Missouri elections. Polling locations can be found on the Kansas City Election Board website, or in a ...

Kansas state agencies are seeing federal grant cancellations ... While the federal public health emergency ended two years ago, the CDC continues to report hundreds of new COVID deaths every ...

Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to overturn the Missouri health department’s newly published emergency rule governing ...

Stevens County is southwestern Kansas along the state line with Oklahoma ... Health News // 20 hours ago Emergency rooms treat a gunshot wound every half-hour U.S. emergency room doctors treat ...

A massive storm hitting the central U.S. on Wednesday could spin up damaging tornadoes and dump heavy rain from northern Texas to the Great Lakes.