Politics
EXCLUSIVE: Irreconcilable differences: Kansas governor’s race offers two incompatible paths forward, says candidate Ty MastersonFor decades, Kansans have changed the governor’s political party like so many outdated outfits. In fact, the state’s voters haven’t elected a successor of the same party in over… Read More
Culture
Kratom danger believed to have killed two Ole Miss students is present in Kansas, MissouriKratom, the drug believed to be at the center of two Ole Miss students’ deaths, was recently widely available in Kansas and is still legal in… Read More
Government
Freshly minted lawmaker ignites long-sought audit of powerful Kansas City-area governmentFrustrated residents of the combined Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, government have sought accountability for its use of tax money for many of the years since the two entities merged… Read More
Opinion
America’s greatest danger has been post-9/11: We’re now doing to ourselves what the terrorists could notThe only thing more cataclysmic to America than the 9/11 attacks has been the stunning erosion of patriotism and kinship we’ve seen in the quarter-century since the mournful cleanup. Read More
Courts
Murder charge dismissed against Kansas deputy in jail death investigators long ago determined was no crimeA judge dismissed a murder-or-manslaughter charge against a Wyandotte County, Kansas, deputy Thursday in the 2025 death of a combative and medically compromised jail inmate. Heartlander News … Read More