This Day in History - January 4: committee reports to the U.S. Senate a bill creating the Kansas-Nebraska Act January 4, 1854 - A bill introduced by Sen. Stephen Douglas in January, 1854, divided the ...

The Kansas Territory, created in 1854, originally extended west to the Rocky Mountains. Kansas gave up its western land, which is now part of Colorado, upon achieving statehood in 1861. The 1858 Pikes ...

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More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the Apache 2.0 license. Docker is a popular platform that enables developers to ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said it's "inevitable" that the Democrats' discharge petition on the three-year extension will be considered on the floor when lawmakers return in January. "It will be on ...

Gov. Jim Pillen (R-NE) announced Wednesday that Nebraska would be the first state to carry out the Medicaid work requirements passed as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The move will require ...

Reversing a district court, the Eleventh Circuit held Tuesday that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which mandated beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting, is constitutional and remanded ...

Topeka has been the capital of Kansas since it became a state in 1861. Lecompton, Leavenworth, Pawnee and the Shawnee Baptist Mission site all served as territorial capitals. Lawrence acted as the "de ...

When Verizon refused to unlock an iPhone purchased by Kansas resident Patrick Roach, he had no intention of giving up without a fight. Roach sued the wireless carrier in small claims court and won.

During the final minutes of regulation of Kansas' game vs. NC State on Saturday, Jayhawks star Darryn Peterson-- the projected No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft-- checked out of the game twice.