Child care is hard for Kansas parents to find, so hard that some providers say you should start looking for infant care the second you know you’re having a baby. As Blaise Mesa of the Kansas News Service reports.
Plus more on these stories:
- The number of involuntary commitments in Sedgwick County has dropped by nearly half in the past decade.
- The Kansas Department of Transportation will use $225 million in federal funding to help local governments repair and replace bridges.
- Kansas State University is expanding its Land Grant Promise scholarship to residents in all Kansas counties.
- Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed an executive order Monday creating an advisory panel to help with planning for a proposed Wichita-area psychiatric hospital.
- Several states have introduced right-to-repair legislation this year.
- Highland Community College in rural northeast Kansas will take steps to address alleged racial discrimination and harassment under an agreement announced Monday with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- The Sedgwick County Zoo has a new baby Chimpanzee.
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