Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City ... respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. We will continue to collaborate ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.