Posted: 6:54 PM Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office still is determining whether it can release an accounting firm's report on revisions to a 1998 legal settlement between states and tobacco companies.
Posted: 1:49 PM The Agriculture Department has forecast U.S. farmers will harvest a far smaller winter wheat crop this season than a year ago, particularly for the hard red varieties used to bake bread.
Posted: 4:59 PM Legislators say they're not getting enough information from Brownback's administration to justify authorizing another $202 million in bonds.
Updated: 6:54 PM Just 17 percent of the planned corn crop has been planted
Updated: 6:52 PM The announcement Thursday at the Kansas City Board of Trade pegged average yields at slightly above 41 bushels per acre.
Posted: 1:51 PM More than 100 state employees are facing the dilemma of whether to move, commute more than 50 miles or retire when the Kansas Department of Agriculture moves from Topeka to Manhattan.
Posted: 5:10 AM Hundreds of state employees are facing the dilemma of whether to move, commute more than 50 miles or retire when the Kansas Department of Agriculture moves from Topeka to Manhattan.
Posted: 12:40 PM More than 600 crop evaluations are planned across the state before the tour ends Thursday.
Posted: 8:29 AM Kansas farm groups are hosting a ranch tour focusing on the drought and how to best manage resources to survive the upcoming grazing season.
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Posted: 10:28 AM Rain that moved across the Midwest in the past week has helped ease drought conditions for some farmers.
Posted: 5:17 PM The measure created a central registry for farmers' markets in the state Department of Agriculture
Posted: 8:31 AM Kansas officials will hold an online meeting on the possibility of the lesser prairie chicken being granted federal protection.
Posted: 2:46 PM Ranchers already dealing with the effects of drought on herds in Kansas
Posted: 8:21 AM The Environmental Protection Agency again is raising objections to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
Updated: 11:12 AM Soaking rain across much of the nation's midsection has helped further alleviate drought in the crop growing states of Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Posted: 9:06 AM The latest crop update from the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service shows improving topsoil moisture conditions for areas that have received significant rain or snow.
Posted: 10:04 AM The Kansas Division of Water Resources wants help from local authorities in cracking down on threats to state water employees who check on water use violations.
Posted: 11:01 AM The latest drought monitor released Thursday shows snowmelt and rain replenished ground moisture in parts of eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
Posted: 8:47 AM A northwest Kansas rancher has dropped a lawsuit claiming the National Cattlemen's Beef Association is illegally using "beef checkoff" funds for lobbying.
Posted: 11:21 AM Efforts to build a new biosecurity lab in Kansas are getting a huge boost, as President Barack Obama sends Congress a budget proposal that includes $714 million for construction of the facility at Kansas State University
Posted: 9:38 AM Forget the scissors: For the grand opening of the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center, officials will forgo the usual ribbon-cutting in favor of slicing an 8-foot-long loaf of bread.
Posted: 4:53 PM The KSU Foundation will construct the building and rent it to the department.
Posted: 8:22 AM About one-third of the employees at an Emporia soybean processing plant will be temporarily laid off because of a lack of a crop.
