Thousands of Kansans are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage as the state begins reviewing who still qualifies after a three-year pause. Experts and health care advocates advise people on how to best prepare.
Legislation that passed the House 76-46 would allow parents to withdraw their children from courses they find objectionable under the assumption that teachers are crossing the line into advocating for radical ideas.
Crystal Tucker’s 22-year-old son suffered chronic back and chest pain from an old skateboarding accident and decided to buy four oxycodone pills on the black market in an attempt to find temporary relief.
A bill meant to help overburdened county jails is still under debate after lawmakers rolled portions of a “women’s bill of rights” into the legislation.
”Transgender people are still here. Even if you bar them from playing sports in every city and state, transgender people will still be here. They will still demand their right to exist and participate in sports and society,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
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Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a lease and agreement with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to operate the Treatment and Recovery Center.
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When family members arrived at Oak Hill Cemetery on Saturday to lay 14-year-old Kamarjay Shaw to rest, they were distraught to learn that his burial plot — next to that of his great uncle, Rick “Tiger” Dowdell — had not yet been dug.
Transgender girls are now blocked from playing women’s sports from kindergarten through college, following the Legislature’s successful override of Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a transgender student athlete ban.
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Murals are among the most creative ways for neighborhoods to express their unique personalities, and Lawrence has plenty. As the weather gets warmer this spring, add these public art pieces to your walking route.
Kansas lawmakers have advanced legislation that would bar transgender women from women’s bathrooms, women’s prisons, women’s locker rooms and domestic violence shelters.
