Kansas News Service

Tumbleweeds have taken over the High Plains. They thrive so well that they are part of the culture of the West. But this ample supply of blowing weeds can hurt farm yields, wreak havoc on neighborhoods and cause fire dangers.

This past semester, Kansas State University relaunched the nuclear engineering major that it discontinued in 1996. It has already attracted more than 50 students.

Groundwater in western Kansas is a precious commodity. Hays and Russell are back in court to defend a plan to transfer water from a ranch in another county.

Lawrence police used genetic genealogy to help solve a 25-year-old pair of child sex crime cases.

According to a report by the March of Dimes, scores in Kansas improved overall. But people of color still face the biggest disparities, like higher preterm birth rates and disproportionate infant deaths.

Democratic political outsiders are vying to unseat Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall — and end nearly a century of Republican control of the state’s U.S. Senate seats.

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.