Kansas

Fewer Kansas farmers are signing up to grow hemp each year, likely because of the diminishing demand for CBD oil. But hemp advocates say there are markets for hemp fiber and grains that could still be a boon for Kansas.

The city of Wichita's Project Hope program aims to reduce homelessness in the city's core downtown areas.

Some of artist M.T. Liggett’s work is preserved in a building for people who want to slow down for a better look. For decades, people zipping along U.S. 400 through Kiowa County have been treated to a vast display of strange metal sculptures as they passed by Mullinville.

Cellular giant T-Mobile announced Thursday it intends to lay off around 7% of its U.S. workforce across the country, putting around 5,000 employees out of a job.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Office of Broadband Access and Deployment (BEAD) submitted its $451 million Five-Year Action Plan (FYAP) to expand high-speed internet access to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

Police secretly copied one or more computers they seized from the Marion County Record and unlawfully failed to hand over the copy when they returned evidence last week, an attorney for the newspaper asserts.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – A pair of Democratic state lawmakers want to see changes in the way search warrants are issued. This comes after the controversial raid of a Kansas newspaper and the home of its publisher.

A northeastern Oklahoma sheriff says he in 100% certain that Wichita-area serial killer Dennis Rader is involved in the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl in 1976.

Tempers flared Monday in the small town of Marion, Kansas, over the controversial raid of a city councilwoman, a local newspaper office, and its owner’s home.

TOPEKA (KSNT)— Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson has granted a motion for five transgender Kansans to intervene in a lawsuit over gender markers on driver’s licenses.

Rifts between family farmers and large agribusiness companies have expanded as debate over animal confinement legislation and a fairness in farming act hits new heights.

University and Athletics officials said the new stadium and surrounding facilities, which they're calling the Gateway District, would transform campus and drive economic development in Lawrence. It's projected to open for the 2025 season.

A former Police Chief from a small town in Marion County is in trouble with the law after being arrested, he’s accused of child sex crimes.

The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence.

Judge Laura Viar, who was appointed on Jan. 1 to fill a vacant 8th Judicial District magistrate seat, was arrested at least twice for DUI in two different Kansas counties in 2012, a Wichita Eagle investigation found.

The prosecutor in Marion County has withdrawn the search warrant executed at a small-town Kansas newspaper that was raided Friday by police, the paper’s lawyer said Wednesday.

All electronic devices seized by police will be returned to the Marion County Record, said Bernie Rhodes, a Kansas City-based attorney for the Record who also represents The Star.

Singer Dolly Parton and Gov. Laura Kelly celebrate statewide expansion in Kansas of a literacy program delivering books to children ages 0-5.

Another day, another avalanche of news from the flabbergasting raid on the Marion County Record. Here's a roundup.

Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.

The Texas brown tarantula, with a leg span of about 4 to 5 inches, typically makes the journey from late August to October once it reaches sexual maturity at around 10 years old.

A Johnson County District Court judge has held off on ruling on a temporary injunction request from Kansas abortion providers, amid an ongoing lawsuit

Kansas documented the state’s lowest-ever recorded birth rate for the 2022 year, according to a preliminary report.