Morgan Chilson

TOPEKA — Two Kansas legislators asked federal energy regulators to ensure competitive bidding occurs on transmission projects, objecting to policies that handed a southcentral Kansas project to investor-owned utility Evergy without a formal bidding process. Speaker of the House Dan...

TOPEKA — Scientists identified a case of New World screwworm in a Texas calf, ramping up concerns nationwide about stopping the invasive parasite that can destroy livestock herds. The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Animal Health is educating state...

TOPEKA — A Kansas healthcare leader and a U.S. Representative are questioning why funding needed to continue essential scientific research isn’t being paid out. “More than halfway through fiscal 2026, the National Institutes of Health has allocated only 33% of...

TOPEKA — Kansas paid nearly $3.2 million to a vendor to update an early childhood data system but was forced to terminate the contract after the vendor failed to meet performance standards. Legislative Post Audit Committee members questioned Janet Stanek...

TOPEKA — The Kroger Co., which operates Dillons stores in Kansas, will pay a $2.5 million penalty for failing to properly manage refrigerant chemicals used in its 2,700 stores, in violation of the Clean Air Act. Kroger failed to properly...

TOPEKA — Wildfires are burning thousands of acres in southwest Kansas, and emergency management personnel from across the state are working to gain control and keep communities safe. Bill Waln, state fire management officer at the Kansas Forest Service, said...

KANSAS CITY — Vice President JD Vance ticked through a list of political topics — from Missouri’s redistricting efforts to the importance of bringing manufacturing back to the United States — at a campaign-style rally Monday afternoon. Vance spoke to...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Vice President JD Vance ticked through a list of political topics — from Missouri’s redistricting efforts to the importance of bringing manufacturing back to the United States — at a campaign-style rally Monday afternoon. Vance spoke...

TOPEKA — A few spaces are exempt from Kansas’ new bathroom law that requires people to use the facilities in government buildings that match their sex assigned at birth, Attorney General Kris Kobach said in an opinion he released Wednesday...

TOPEKA — Measles, once thought successfully eradicated in the United States, returned to Kansas with a confirmed case Tuesday in an Osage County resident, health officials said. The individual acquired the disease outside the state and “we do not have...

TOPEKA — Three Kansans who came into close “high risk” contact with a person who has confirmed Andes hantavirus are being monitored by state and federal officials. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a Tuesday news release...

TOPEKA — The federal government began removal proceedings against a former Kansas mayor and permanent legal resident who hoped to avoid detention after pleading guilty to election crimes. Joe Ceballos, a former Coldwater mayor, was notified at 10 a.m. Tuesday...