Washington County Schools regained seven stockpile days, allowing for more flexibility in case of weather or illness-related closures. Director of Schools Jerry Boyd explained that the district ...

Education is a big part of Black History Month, and one Johnson County family has a history of fighting for education for the ...

Freidhof, who has worked for Johnson County’s conservation department since 2002, succeeds director Larry Gullett, who died ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area. Some staff think the tension set back the tuberculosis ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.