The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announces that it will be responsible for administering the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) across Kansas.

In celebration of World Cancer Day, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has launched its new Cancer Data ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.

Dirty kitchens, stained mattresses, overflowing garbage, cockroaches crawling on cutting boards, raw pork left outside in a ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The 29th and Grove groundwater contamination site is a big topic of discussion in Sedgwick County, and it’s not the only site with environmental contamination in the area. Over ...

State and local public health departments rely on federal funding to operate. With those dollars at risk amid the Trump administration’s federal funding freezes, they’re bracing for the future.

A new state dashboard lets policymakers across Kansas see mortality rates, risk factors and other detailed data about cancer in their communities, and it has good news and bad news about the disease ...

Kansas health officials are tackling the largest tuberculosis outbreak in US history, with 67 confirmed cases since the start of 2025.