As the city’s undetermined closing date for the encampment looms, those who live there are exasperated at what they say is lack of communication.

Experts say officials should be cautious in removing someone from a meeting, but the public must also understand the purpose ...

What happened at the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Meeting: downtown action plan, development near Kellogg.

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The upcoming primary election will determine whether Kansas will shift away from the nomination system it has used since 1958 to have voters directly elect justices to the state’s highest court. The ...

The 73-year-old has been practicing law in the small central Kansas town of Marion for more than four decades. He’s done a little bit of everything – “domestic work, adoptions, estate planning, quiet ...

Darin Beck, executive director of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, says relatively few people that he addresses in his interactions with civic groups know there is an agency that oversees ...

Oklahoma native and Air Force veteran Melvin Mewborn, 80, moved to Oaklawn in 1980. Although dilapidated homes pockmark the neighborhood, his home – which he owns free and clear – is not among them.

Ann Leppke, who taught science at Peabody High School before her retirement, serves on the board of the Peabody Main Street Association. She and other members of the group share a vision for ...

Row after row of verdant grapevines cling to rocky terrain sloping into rippling hills stretching as far as the eye can see. Is it Tuscany? The Mosel? Try the Flint Hills of northeast Kansas. “People ...

Chris Smith works on a test plot of natural grass at the R9 Ranch, the center of an ongoing battle over water. Credit: Jeff Tuttle Fights over water in the West tend to follow a particular contour: ...

Neighborhoods such as downtown and Historic Midtown are accustomed to living alongside homeless services and their patrons and have some familiarity with the strains that come with it. Credit: Jeff ...