Kansas high school athletes in 2025 showed true grit and determination. Derby’s boys bowling team claimed a second straight Class 6A championship, with Dawson Baumgartner shining brightest in the state tournament. Maize South freshman Krislynn Martinez recorded a flawless wrestling season, finishing 37-0 without surrendering a single takedown.

A woman was shot and killed at an apartment building in the 8700 block of Countryshire Lane in south Kansas City just after noon Tuesday, according to a Kansas City police spokesperson..

Kansas City’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee on Tuesday advanced an ordinance that would let the city spend up to $1 million to buy the long‑blighted Robandee Shopping Center at Bannister Road and James A.

A special perk Kansas families look forward to every year is finally back, but it looks a lot different this year. In years past, the Sunflower Summer program ran all

Former Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes is among a group of people who have been bringing in crucial supplies after flooding devastated communities in central Texas last week.

The governor’s budget vetoes included money for tutoring programs, road infrastructure improvements, workforce development, food assistance and arts organizations. "These losses are huge," says Arts Asylum director Evie Craig.

Kansas State was voted the top team heading into the 2025 season. The Wildcats finished 9-4 last year and won the Rate Bowl in a 44-41 shootout against Rutgers.

TOPEKA — A perpetually homeless man abused by his parents and shuffled as a youth among more than 17 foster homes and two psychiatric hospitals received a life sentence in prison Tuesday without possibility of parole for half a century in the rape and murder of a Topeka preschool girl entrusted to his care.

The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating a second Tuesday homicide. Officers were called around 11:45 a.m. to the 8700 block of Countryshire Lane on a shooting.

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