All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2016 // Saline County in Kansas and a former interim director of the Saline County Health Department have reached a $75,000 settlement over a sexual discrimination claim.The Salina Journal reported the county said that it denied...
Apr 27 2016 // The National Weather Service is surveying damage from a northern Kansas tornado that left two people with minor injuries, damaged about 10 homes and destroyed a trailer.National Weather Service meteorologist Brian...
Apr 27 2016 // A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on April 26, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said.The storm...
Apr 19 2016 // The Kansas Forest Service has faced budget constraints as it works to deal with wildfires, including the largest in state history that scorched hundreds of square miles of land last month.Larry Biles, director of the...
Apr 18 2016 // Gary Petrosino joined Lockton as chief operating officer of the global insurance broker’s Pacific operations in the U.S.Petrosino will be responsible for leading a team of more than 500 associates in the California...
Apr 12 2016 // Amtrak has filed a federal lawsuit against a southwest Kansas feed yard, accusing it of gross negligence in relation to a train derailment that injured 32 passengers in March.In the suit filed by Amtrak and BNSF, the...
Apr 11 2016 // The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in Kansas in March that injured more than two dozen people occurred at a site where there had been damage to the track that has been traced to a grain truck, federal authorities...
Apr 7 2016 // Authorities are responding to wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas that have led to evacuations, scorched mostly rural land and destroyed an unknown number of structures.In Oklahoma, the largest fire was in the same area near...
Apr 6 2016 // The Missouri House has advanced legislation that would impose statewide regulations on app-based ride-hailing services, a move companies Uber and Lyft support.House members voted 113-38 to give initial approval to a bill...
Apr 5 2016 // Repairing a lighting-damaged sculpture that is a fixture of the downtown Kansas City skyline will cost more than $1 million, officials say.The city’s insurance is expected to cover the cost of fixing the futuristic...
Apr 3 2016 // Kansas came close last month to hitting its target for tax collections, and the shortfall of less than $2 million reported represented relatively good news after a winter of gloomy budget developments.Sales tax collections...
Mar 31 2016 // Officials say a wildfire that burned hundreds of square miles of rural land in Oklahoma and Kansas this week destroyed at least 41 structures in both states. Oklahoma Forestry Services spokeswoman Hannah Anderson says...
Mar 31 2016 // A former Topeka insurance company employee has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for embezzlement. The U.S. attorney’s office says 47-year-old Erin Rebecca Thomas also was ordered to pay $215,000...
Mar 30 2016 // The biggest wildfire in Kansas history has been largely contained, but authorities said more homes were damaged than originally thought.The Kansas Adjutant General’s Office said that nine Barber County homes were...
Mar 29 2016 // The biggest wildfire in Kansas history is largely contained, although firefighting efforts could be hindered by more gusty winds.The Kansas Forest Service says crews were patrolling areas hit by the wildfire that has...
Mar 24 2016 // Authorities say a wildfire that started in Oklahoma and spread into Kansas has burned tens of thousands of acres of rural land.The National Weather Service says the fire started Tuesday night near the Kansas border in...
Mar 21 2016 // Efforts to increase speed limits on Iowa freeways and rural roads failed in the Legislature this year amid safety concerns, but officials acknowledged such moves are popular with drivers and likely will come before...
Mar 17 2016 // A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, an investigator...
Mar 16 2016 // Investigators looking into the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in southwest Kansas will review rail conditions and other factors to determine the cause of the accident, a federal transportation official...
Mar 15 2016 // An engineer noticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emergency brakes before a passenger train derailed in western Kansas early on March 14, an official said.The Amtrak train apparently was travelling at about...