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Few addiction treatment centers in Kansas let children come to treatment. That makes it harder for parents to get help.

The Keystone was built with extra safety measures, yet it split open under run-of-the-mill pressure levels that less rigorously designed pipelines regularly withstand.

Democratic state Rep. Marvin Robinson earned the ire of his party when he continually voted with Republicans on key issues, leading some of his colleagues to believe he sold his votes to get funding for a local project. But that may not hurt him politically.

Lawmakers voted to repeal the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act, a 1988 law now seen as a property rights violation and a barrier to a fresh start after prison.

The pandemic allowed people to receive prescriptions for mental health and opioid addiction through telemedicine. Now Kansas clinicians want those flexibilities to be permanent.

A Lansing prison riot in 2020 made national headlines. Another riot in 2022 injured corrections officers. No inmates have been charged in either incident.

The program allows students to get an early start on careers in the health care field.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has seen some of her vetoes of culture wars legislation and others overridden by conservative Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature.