TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly, joined by Kansas Secretary of Labor Amber Shultz, announced on Friday the launch of the Kansas Department of Labor’s (KDOL)… Login to continue reading Login…
TOPEKA â Ms. Wheelchair Kansas, Inc. is celebrating its 20th anniversary and is currently searching for women of achievement, who are wheelchair mobile, to serve as contestants in the annual Ms. Wheelchair Kansas event. Contestants can be nominated by a person or group or can choose to participate in the program.
BY ANNA KAMINSKIKansas Reflector CEDAR CREST — About a year ago, Ed Bartoszek’s mother could ride a tractor through the rows of pines on the… Login to continue reading Login…
A Wichita family physician is trying to make primary care more affordable and accessible through a subscription-based model called direct primary care.
BY SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector TOPEKA — Haley Kottler is trying to remain optimistic about working with an emboldened GOP supermajority in the Legislature to… Login to continue reading Login…
TOPEKA — An interim committee of the Kansas Legislature rejected Monday a recommendation that President-elect Donald Trump and the state’s congressional delegation avoid a tariff war detrimental to the Kansas economy.The Republican-led committee of state House and Senate members waded into the issue while digging into Kansas’ role in U.S.
TOPEKA — Three higher education institutions in central and western Kansas joined forces to address the region’s workforce shortages and education gaps.Fort Hays State University, Northwest Kansas Technical College and North Central Kansas Technical College created a new affiliation as a way to propel students into the region’s workforce and empower their communities to persist through hard times.The affiliation is different from a merger or a takeover, said Tisa Mason, president of Fort Hays State, on the Kansas Reflector podcast.
SEWARD COUNTY – The former city manager of Liberal, Russell “Rusty” Varnado, was arrested following a Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) case.
TOPEKA — The court-appointed monitor for Kansas’ settlement of a foster care lawsuit challenged the state’s reliance on “sleep-only” housing because the practice didn’t contribute to satisfactory outcomes for children and distorted statistics on the number of youths in stable residential settings.Monitor Judith Meltzer, senior fellow with the nonprofit Center for the Study of Social Policy, said Kansas was supposed to have remedied years ago problems with temporarily holding foster children in offices, motels and other unsuitable locations.
PLAINVILLE — Churches and clergy members play an important role in linking residents with mental health care in rural and frontier Kansas counties, experts say.Mental health professionals, local faith leaders and community members met at a rural mental health summit Tuesday in Plainville hosted by NAMI Kansas, a mental health advocacy agency.Caregiver and NAMI Kansas volunteer Tara Gwynn said during a presentation that local churches are often the first places people in rural and frontier areas go to seek therapy or guidance.Part of the reason why religious officials are often the first person to respond to a mental health crisis is because of a lack of mental health care providers across Kansas.