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Kansas City area members of the Hazara, an ethnic minority in Afghanistan who have long been targets of violence, demonstrated at the World War I Museum and Memorial in October 2022 to call attention to the killing of young Hazara women and girls in Kabul.

Hazara refugees build a new home in Kansas City, but want help for loved ones in Afghanistan

Kansas City-area members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority — some new arrivals since the U.S. evacuation in 2021 — are creating a community and celebrating traditions here while trying to call attention to the risk of genocide back in Afghanistan.

Kansas lawmakers heard Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's proposed budget that includes increasing special education by $72.4 million each year for the next five years.

Here are 6 ways Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly wants to spend a $2 billion budget surplus

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly laid out her Kansas spending priorities in a budget plan presented to the Republican-led Legislature Thursday.

Report finds Catholic church in Kansas covered up sexual abuse of children by priests for decades

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation found that the church minimized child rape with euphemisms, protected priests accused of rape and supported clergy financially after they had been implicated in sexual assault.

Students at the University of Kansas protested the removal of gender neutral spaces at a dormitory in February of this year.

Trans student says University of Kansas fired him for talking to media about housing rule change

A student at the University of Kansas argues he was wrongfully terminated from his position as a resident assistant because he spoke to the media against KU’s new housing policies removing gender neutral spaces.

Jose Madrid-Leiva is in ICE custody, even though he was due to receive immigration protections as a crime victim.

Authorities told this Kansas immigrant he was protected. ICE detained him anyway

Jose Madrid-Leiva applied for a type of visa for crime victims and authorities said he qualified for immigration protections. His detention suggests a new frontier in immigration enforcement.

The stone and brick foundations of the Wyandotte House Hotel peek up from the ground in the old settlement of Quindaro. It’s now an archaeological site owned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the City of Kansas City, Kansas.

Underground Railroad site in Kansas City, Kansas, named National Historic Landmark

The designation from the National Park Service opens up the Quindaro Townsite to new opportunities for federal funding and assistance. The ruins, now deteriorating, were once a haven for Black people escaping slavery and for Free State abolitionists.

Shelley Miles, a Lawrence resident, is concerned that cuts to Medicaid will cause her husband, Kirk, to lose access to assisted living. Kirk has dementia, and Miles said she couldn't afford his care without Medicaid.

Kansans on Medicaid and health care providers say federal funding cuts will hurt

Federal lawmakers are considering big cuts to the health care program Medicaid. Some Kansans fear they’ll lose coverage or benefits.

Army veteran Frank Florez, at left, and his wife Frances, at right, listen as Frank’s older brother Anthony Florez, center, speaks to the small crowd gathered at American Legion Post 213, in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. The “Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War" oral history project was one of many programs that were affected when steep federal cuts targeted the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A Kansas City historian collected Vietnam War stories. Trump's cuts almost canceled the project

When President Trump made deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this year, grants were cancelled and programs across the country were suspended. In Kansas City, one oral history project for Vietnam War veterans had to be scaled back.

The city of Leavenworth traded arguments with CoreCivic at a U.S. District Courthouse in Topeka.

Judge hands Leavenworth, Kansas, a court loss as battle over immigrant detention continues

A U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of a private prison company that plans to use its troubled Leavenworth facility for immigration detention. The city argued CoreCivic should follow local laws first.

Closeup photo of a person's hands holding a blue, pink and white-striped sign that reads "Protect Trans Kids."

Transgender teens sue Kansas to stop new ban on gender-affirming health care

Kansas legislators passed a law this year that bans gender-affirming treatments for young transgender people. Plaintiffs say it violates fundamental rights in the state constitution.

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