Morgan Chilson

TOPEKA — Charter Communications finalized its $34.5 billion deal to acquire Cox Communications on Thursday, and Kansans will soon see their Cox products marketed under Charter’s Spectrum brand. Along with its Cox transaction, Charter announced completion of its purchase of...

TOPEKA — The $1.25 billion biocontainment facility in Manhattan developed for cutting-edge research on the most dangerous animal diseases is not fully operational three years after its ribbon-cutting, a federal report determined. The Office of Inspector General published a July...

TOPEKA — Kansas won’t change its vaccine schedule to match the executive order from President Donald Trump but instead will continue to “trust in scientific evidence” and follow recommendations from major health organizations, a spokeswoman said. In an executive order...

TOPEKA — Evergy filed a request with utility regulators to ensure its confidential data wasn’t uploaded to artificial intelligence platforms, highlighting a concern that the rapid growth and use of AI may release private information. In a July 30 filing...

TOPEKA — The error rate in a Kansas food assistance program has dropped since Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025, but the state still faces the possibility of paying a $20.6 million penalty to the federal...

TOPEKA — Kansas is on course for its smallest winter wheat harvest since the 1950s, with a July report showing the state’s farmers are expected to produce almost half the number of bushels they did at the same time last...

TOPEKA — A top Kansas agriculture advocate lost some of his optimism regarding the farm bill after the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee failed to move the bill forward Thursday. Nick Levendofsky, executive director of the Kansas Farmers Union, said he...

TOPEKA — Kansas cases of a gastrointestinal illness typically caused by an organism on produce rose to 615 as of Wednesday, up about 150 cases from last week, according to a state infectious disease dashboard. Cyclosporiasis cases nationally rose to...

TOPEKA — CoreCivic on Wednesday announced the sale of its Leavenworth prison to the federal government, likely negating months of negotiations and a legal battle city officials pursued to ensure the humane treatment of immigrants detained there. Nashville-based CoreCivic announced...

TOPEKA — Primary election results brought few surprises for statewide offices as most candidates ran unopposed. The lone exception was a skirmish between Democrats Jennifer Day and Samuel Lane for Secretary of State. Day took a decisive lead as election...

TOPEKA — Partisan donors have spent at least $12.8 million in Kansas on dozens of television ads and stacks of mailers, advocating for or against a ballot referendum that could determine the political temperature of the state Supreme Court for...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents on Tuesday selected Jennifer Bonds-Raacke to lead the state’s top public higher education organization as president and CEO. Bonds-Raacke had served as the vice president for academic affairs at KBOR. She fulfills the...