The Kansas-Missouri border was a key flashpoint in the lead-up to the Civil War. Slavery was legal in Missouri, and some ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Local lawmakers on both sides of the state line have introduced a bill that could designate the Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas, as a National Historic Landmark.

John Brown's sword and a historical sledgehammer have been removed from display at the Kansas Statehouse. The artifacts were moved to the newly renovated Kansas Museum of History for conservation and ...

Lecompton's Constituion Hall, 319 Elmore St., as seen on March 5, 2026. The Lecompton Historical Society is hosting a special event celebrating the 170th anniversary of the building — which played a ...

As state capitols go, there's no place like Kansas. The Sunflower State's traditionally-domed, 304-foot-tall Statehouse stands crowned by a 22-foot, 2-inch marble statue of a warrior from the Kanza ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansans really should be ashamed of lawmakers for their recent actions targeting transgender people — and worse, putting what some ...

Kansans really should be ashamed of lawmakers for their recent actions targeting transgender people — and worse, putting what some have said amounts to a bounty on innocent people they don’t like ...

Every Jan. 29, Kansans celebrate the state’s birthday, but Kansas Day is more than a yearly shout-out to statehood. It is a tradition rooted in education, shaped by community pride and still evolving ...

Between 1855 and 1859, a guerrilla war broke out in Kansas, ignited by pro-slavery Democrats who sought to make Kansas a slave state. The violence there — which gave the name “Bleeding Kansas” to this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American bison, like the one seen at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge in McPherson County, is the state animal of Kansas. Maxwell ...

Hawkins framed the 2026 Republican agenda around tax relief and budget cuts. He prioritized K-12 funding, cellphone bans, housing and road investment. He proposed health, tort and housing reforms to ...