Jodi Fortino

Avery Vehlewald, a 7-year-old from Overland Park, is headed to Japan next month to compete in the Pokémon World Championship. He’ll be competing with his 9-year-old brother, Glenn, who also qualified.

In the race for the District 3 seat on the Kansas Board of Education, voters will choose between two candidates who diverge on curriculum, how schools discuss mental health and other hot-button issues.

A new proposal scaled back a divisive plan introduced to the Gardner Edgerton School District in July. However, former and current students at Monday's board meeting said the proposed policy did not go far enough to protect transgender students.

Attorneys for Pamela Ricard say the teacher's First Amendment rights were violated when she was disciplined for refusing to use a student's preferred name and pronouns.

Federal officials are responding to Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Many Democrats have called for more restrictions on gun access. While Republican lawmakers have condemned the shooting, critics have quick to point out the tight relationships these lawmakers have held with the NRA.

Students are starting to be reunited with their families following an hours-long lockdown. The suspect, an 18-year-old male student at Olathe East, was shot and injured.

Low-income homeowners are often the target for city code violations. Nonprofits in Kansas City are asking to move away from a punitive code system and toward a restorative one driven by the community.

The Kansas state representative was arrested over the weekend on charges of domestic violence. Aaron Coleman has admitted to abuse, bullying and revenge porn while he was in middle school.

Tuesday's announcement from Mayor Quinton Lucas follows new CDC guidance urging that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with significant COVID-19 spread.

A Kansas City area school district, named after a Native American tribe itself, is retiring some Native American mascots, deeming them derogatory or offensive.