Merry Christmas. We hope you have had a good year. If you have a few minutes for reading today, here are some of our biggest stories from the past week.
Each year, Americans spread more than 48 billion pounds of salt on roadways to ward off winter weather. But the more researchers study the consequences, the more alarmed they become.
A Shawnee County judge declared the Kansas Department of Health and Environment violated state law by issuing permits allowing construction of large confined hog production facilities unusually close to surface water in Phillips and Norton counties.
U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement "the biggest trade agreement of our lifetime" that will translate into "thousands of jobs for Kansas.
A former inmate at the Topeka Correctional Facility flashed tears and rage during court testimony Thursday as she recounted the sexual abuse she suffered as a student in the prison's dental lab.