The Garden City schools superintendent rejected an assertion by the state's top public health official that abstinence education programs in the district fueled growth of unwanted teen pregnancy in Finney County.
After four weeks in Boise, the NASA and NOAA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, or FIREX-AQ, research project will spend the next two and a half weeks in Salina exploring trace gasses and aerosol in smoke.
Kansas education leaders are in the middle of an Apollo-inspired program to individualize the public school experience for nearly half a million public school students.
The chief executive of the Kansas reading program on the verge of losing a $7.8 million grant offered a textbook scorched-earth rebuttal to claims by state officials impugning financial integrity of the company and asserting abuse of millions of dollars earmarked to help bring low-income families out of poverty.
The Kansas Department for Children and Families announced it was severing ties with a company that administers early literacy programs for public schools, citing financial problems uncovered but not disclosed under the administration of former Gov. Sam Brownback.
A U.S. District Court jury convicted a former Lawrence bank executive of participating in a scheme relying on fraudulent claims to secure $15.2 million in construction loans involving more than two dozen banks in Kansas.
More than 1,000 motorists illegally passed school buses in Kansas during a one-day test in April to determine willingness of the public to respect stop sign arms and flashing red lights deployed by drivers.
The Kansas attorney general dismissed the last elements of an open meetings complaint filed by a government-transparency group after the public was ordered to exit the Senate gallery and reporters were ushered from the chamber during a Medicaid protest in May, officials said.
Shawnee County District Judge Cheryl Rios rejected the "absurd" attempt to dismiss charges against a man accused of molesting inmates at the women's prison in Topeka because they didn't consent to the abuse.
A rare sense of urgency coursed through state government, with bipartisan calls by Kansas politicians and officials to remove bureaucratic hurdles in rebuilding the fire-damaged Tyson Food plant in Finney County and mitigate broader economic fallout from halting production at one of the nation's key cattle packing facilities.
Mounting evidence that federal prosecutors in Kansas for years listened to covertly recorded confidential conversations of defendants and their attorneys moved from courtroom to the campaign trail in the 2020 contest for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Pat Roberts.
Stakeholders on Monday got the opportunity to discuss regional transportation concerns and priorities during the Kansas Department of Transportation's first of eight scheduled local consult meetings in 10 days.