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As director of the Kiowa County Senior Center in Greensburg, Kari Unruh is used to helping other people.

Average gasoline prices in Kansas have fallen 0.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.08/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 1,329 stations in Kansas.

Kansas earned a High-Performance Tier ranking recently in the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) Ready or Not Annual Report due to the work of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s (KDHE) Emergency Preparedness program.Ready or Not 2024: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism measures states’ readiness to respond to a spectrum of health emergencies and to provide ongoing public health services.The annual report calculates each state’s ability to respond to a variety of public health emergencies while still providing the everyday public health services communities rely on.

Partners and collaborators will provide mentorship and technical assistance to local food producers and farmers in six states with an eye to tackling food scarcity.Kneeling in the loamy Nebraska soil, Maya women from the Q’anjob’al community plant rows of corn.

What’s a city girl to do when her youngest son decides to “go rodeo”?

HAYS, Kan - Fort Hays State University has transformed the lives of countless individuals and uplifted the rural communities in Western Kansas by focusing on our strengths of affordability, accessibility, and adaptability.

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It’s been a few weeks ago that Master Trooper Evan Jacks saved the life of a baby named Brexley Huffman who had stopped breathing on K54 Highway near Brenham township in Kiowa County, Kansas.

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents unanimously voted Thursday to raise tuition and fees an average of 3.9% for full-time, in-state undergraduate students at the five state public universities requesting revenue enhancements from that source.Members of the Board of Regents defended the increases by touting a report showing the result would be that raises to tuition and fees for resident undergraduates in the university system ranged from 4.4% to 22.2% since 2020.

Governor Laura Kelly and Transportation Secretary Calvin Reed today announced that $8.6 million will be awarded to 14 transportation construction projects through the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Cost Share Program for spring 2024.