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The average number of daily COVID cases in both Missouri and Kansas climbed to record levels on Monday, and hospitalizations are near all-time highs in the Kansas City metro. But tests are in short supply.

It's down to the wire for Kansas City and other cities vying to serve as hosts for 2026 World Cup soccer matches. Plus, the fired Kansas health secretary says politics hindered the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A funeral home obituary stated that Jeanie M. Evans died unexpectedly "from a reaction to the Covid (sic) vaccine." That information wasn't verified by news outlets that repeated it.

An obituary linking a Kansas woman's death to her vaccination against COVID-19 was picked up by local media, and questions arose when several news outlets rushed to unsubstantiated conclusions. Plus, innovations in the metro's fitness industry are seeing gyms through the pandemic.

Kansas has agreed to change its policy and allow transgender people born in the state to update the sex listed on their birth certificates.The Kansas…

A day after Kansas notified Planned Parenthood in May 2016 that it would cut off its participation in Medicaid, the nonprofit group sued to block the…

This story was updated to include comments from the Kansas Department for Children and Families.A lawsuit filed Friday contends Kansas violates foster…

The federal government recently tore up Debbie and Tony Morrison’s front yard in the small southeast Kansas town of Caney.And the two are happy about…

Kansas’ top health official is stepping down in January, the Governor’s Office announced Thursday.Susan Mosier, a former state lawmaker, had led the…

State Medicaid officials on Friday formally started the process of renewing KanCare, the privatized Medicaid program launched by Republican Gov. Sam…

The federal agency that oversees Medicaid has agreed to a one-year extension of Kansas’ $3.2 billion KanCare program, which provides managed care services…

Darrel Urban stands in front of a newly-dug pit the size of two football fields laid end-to-end, and ten feet deep. Soon, it will be full of hog waste,…