"More than 80% of TB disease cases in the United States result from longstanding, untreated latent TB infection," TB said. According to the World Health Organization, about half of all people with TB can be found in eight countries: Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and South Africa.

The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked a plan to freeze federal funding for trillions of dollars. It caused panic for many legislators, nonprofits, and families, while some feel this is a step in the right direction.

Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

TOPEKA — Apolina Bahati’s decades-long journey to United States citizenship came to a close Monday at a naturalization ceremony in the marble-enveloped rotunda of the Kansas Capitol.

Ahead of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game between the Chiefs and Bills, most of the country is rooting for Buffalo. BetOnline.ag studied geotagged X posts and found fans in just six states are rooting for the Chiefs now: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

About 340 communities throughout the United States have red light cameras ... and pedestrian injuries. Read on to see how Kansas compares to others in traffic camera laws, and check out the national analysis here. Red light and speed cameras are typically ...

Sixty-seven active TB cases and 79 latent TB cases have been reported in 2 Kansas counties since the beginning of 2024.

The Democratic governor’s overture to GOP lawmakers came as Kelly insisted she wouldn’t support any proposal that “robs our schools” of needed funds. Kansas must “stay on the path to prosperity” as it moves through the rest of the 21st century, she said.

Several communities, including in Kansas City, shared their perspectives on the immigrant ... including immigrants and second-generation Americans whose parents immigrated to the United States. The conversations reveal a timeline of the immigrant ...

An "unprecedented" outbreak of tuberculosis has hit the state of Kansas, according to USA Today, making it "the largest in recorded history in the United States." Most of the cases have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson County.