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The city is required to keep certain property and provide a way for its retrieval. Yet over the course of over 900 encampment removals since January 2025, officials have only 10 instances of saving pe...

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

When a Kansas state agency was told to cut $2.3 million in housing programs, some closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts.

Researchers have linked phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, to premature birth, infertility and ADHD.

When a Kansas state agency was told to cut $2.3 million in housing programs, some closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts.

Meteorologists and climate scientists have warned of consequences with fewer workers in crucial positions.

The former winter shelter transitioned to a privately-run operation on April 1. Operators are optimistic about its future while shelter residents express frustrations.

The former winter shelter transitioned to a privately-run operation on April 1. Operators are optimistic about its future while shelter residents express frustrations.

“We tried to be too much, too fast, for too many people.”

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and li...

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...

The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.

Thousands of Kansans rallied Saturday at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against i...

Authorities said suspect impersonated a police officer, and a “manifesto” was recovered with lawmakers’ names.

In downtown Wichita, Jeff Best's Hobo Code Railings is tucked beneath an underpass. The art piece celebrates past nomadic life but permanently sits in a place where homelessness is present.

The Justice Department retracted findings of constitutional violations in Phoenix and five other jurisdictions. Advocates say the move could further embolden cities and police departments to…

The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

Adopting dogs abandoned on the battlefields has become a national duty in Ukraine.

Only two bags of infested flour are left in my house. I interviewed others also facing starvation and ground invasion.