Kansas News

Mid-Kansas Electric Company LLC held its sixth annual meeting May 18 in Ulysses.

A Colorado woman died after the dune buggy she was in over turned on a rural road in southwest Kansas.

Democrats and the Kansas corrections secretary say an agreement struck earlier in the week to cut some $12 million from public safety in the 2014 Kansas budget would put residents at risk if spending cuts are not restored.

The Kansas Department of Corrections would have to limit parole supervision to only the highest-risk offenders under a proposed state budget agreement, the department's secretary said in a memo this week.

Randy Clark of Clark Farms, left, shows Doris Waggoner some carrots in April at the Kansas Grown Farmers Market in front of Green Acres near 21st and Rock Road.

When lawmakers return Tuesday, they will consider another plan drafted by House Republicans and agreed on by tax negotiators Friday afternoon.

A police chief says a former Kansas police instructor admitted that he ``bullied'' his wife the night before she was found shot to death in the couple's fire-damaged home.

This afternoon into the evening, there's a chance for storms to develop in western Kansas with the main threat being large hail and gusty winds.

The Midland Railway in Baldwin, KS operates excursion trains behind vintage engines, such as this restored Rock Island E-8. Franklin County Ed Schons made an "s" hook in the blacksmith's shop at Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop on Wednesday, Jun 13, 2012, in Olathe, Kansas.

The Kansas Senate has passed a measure that would cut the state sales tax on groceries from 6.3 percent to 4.95 percent, setting up what the Kansas City Star calls a "showdown with the [State] House," where "approval" of the plan "is questionable." There are probably some compelling reasons to cut the sales tax on groceries.

School districts across the state received word Thursday of significant cuts to federal funding reserved for the highest-poverty schools.

The plan, which was released Thursday, suggests that sometime between 2030 and 2040, the highway should be widened to six lanes by adding "high occupancy toll," or HOT lanes, in each direction.

Officials planning to attend the May 28 ceremony include Gov. Sam Brownback, U.S. Sens.

Beginning tomorrow, the public can view the conservation project of the Apollo F-1 rocket engines at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson.

It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring.

"However, I support the Legislature's policy goal of permitting certain limited raffles for charitable purposes," Brownback said in a statement.

Kansans should contact disaster-relief organizations of their choice, such as the American Red Cross , Salvation Army or United Way , or local organizations to find out how they can help.

Franklin Leonard Feist, 67, died May 23 at his home in Great Bend, following a battle with renal cell carcinoma.

About half of Kansas cities and towns declined in population between 2011 and 2012, according to new estimates from the Census Bureau.

Prosecutors say a former Kansas police instructor killed his wife because she was divorcing him, then burned down the couple's home in Kingman to hide evidence.