Kansas News Service

Bonner Springs is giving more than $200 million of tax incentives for Mattel Adventure Park. City officials say it will boost the local tax revenues. But a public finance expert says the deal will mostly cost the state.

Following confirmation of the Kansas City Chiefs' impending move to Wyandotte County, residents on both sides of the state line said they have mixed feelings about the future.

Ahmon Mann, 46, says Roger Golubski, a disgraced Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective, was the “main architect of the state’s one-witness case” in a 2000 murder. Mann is seeking release from a Kansas prison, saying his conviction was a “manifest injustice” created by Golubski and his then-partner.

A major tax incentives package approved Monday by Kansas lawmakers will help the Chiefs build a new $3 billion domed stadium.

Lawrence violist Mary Tuven and composer and bassist Charles Kelso Hoag often brought their daughter, Andrea Hoag, to their wintertime performances when she was just a small child. Now all grown up, Hoag brings those decades-old memories to life in her short story “The Christmas Musicians.”

Legislators will consider a billion-dollar public funding package in hopes of luring the NFL team to Kansas. The Royals will not be discussed Monday, leaving the MLB team’s future uncertain.

The midair collision between a military helicopter and American Eagle Flight 5342 killed 67 people.

A state law requires Kansas agencies and universities to eliminate any policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Republican lawmakers are questioning whether they should also regulate the content in college courses.

In January, all access to hormone treatments and other gender-affirming care for transgender youth will end in Kansas. Some families have already moved to avoid the ban.

The Panasonic plant in De Soto, Kansas, shut down after officers shot a person suspected of stabbing another. The suspect is dead, and the stabbing victim was transported to the hospital in critical condition.

With the World Cup teams now determined for Kansas City’s first four games next June, fans can now join another FIFA draw for their chance to buy tickets. But they won't be cheap.

A Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation-owned business landed a federal contract to assist facility design for immigration detention centers. The tribe said the project does not align with its values.