Twice each year, Basehor Community Library hosts a used book sale sponsored by the Friends of the Library aimed at raising funds to support programming and other library activities. That sale was held last weekend and it offered citizens the opportunity to purchase books and other library material at great prices.
Another snow storm led to classes being canceled across Leavenworth County on Thursday. About three inches of snow had About three inches of snow had fallen in Leavenworth County by 11 a.m.
No injuries were reported following a fire at a Leavenworth duplex apartment, a Fire Department official said. The fire was reported at 10:08 p.m.
Republican legislators in Kansas are trying to prohibit state and local mask mandates during disease outbreaks, advancing such a ban along with proposals aimed at discouraging local restrictions on businesses and public gatherings.
A former Lansing Correctional Facility inmate will be heading back to prison because of a 2017 escape, according to a prosecution official. James L.
A Kansas middle school teacher who was disciplined for refusing to use a student’s preferred first name and gender pronouns is suing the school district. Fort Riley Middle School math teacher Pamela Ricard said in a federal lawsuit that the Geary County School District violated her constitutional rights and did not accommodate her Christian beliefs when it suspended her for three days.
Republican legislators are close to committing up to $1 billion in surplus state funds to shore up Kansas’ pension fund for teachers and government workers despite bipartisan misgivings about that move ruling out some tax cuts.
Dear Amy: I have been a journalist and author since my early 20s -- now retired and living in a gated community. After our last book group meeting, I got a call from our coordinator.
Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come. The increase reported Thursday by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most of the oil and gas price increases that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb.
More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans alike and in counties big and small, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.