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 ...

Snowcapped mountains, towering pine trees and a winding dirt road cover the dining room walls. Fluffy white clouds float ...

BY CHRISTINE FONVILLE AND REGINALD FULLER Layoffs that could affect health and healthcare in DeKalb County and beyond are ...

JC Penney announced in 1925 it would remodel the store in Manistee, to include public restrooms and a bigger shoe department.

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

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

The city of Lenexa will now allow Project 1020 to accept up to 50 people per night. The organization said it's been ...

Wyandotte and Johnson counties, which comprise a large part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, have the greatest number of reported tuberculosis cases, and both counties have significant ...

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.

Active cases of Tuberculosis (TB) have been on the rise across Minnesota and nationally since 2022. TB is a dangerous bacterial infection that attacks the lungs. There are two different kinds of TB.

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

Tuberculosis may seem like a disease of the past—more associated with Victorian waifs and overcrowded tenements than medicine in the 21st century—but it’s definitely still with us. Here’s ...