KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Emergency officials were working to contain a large wildfire that broke out Friday afternoon in El Dorado, Kansas, about 170 miles southwest of Kansas City on the Kansas Turnpike.

A security lapse at the El Dorado Correctional Facility led to a June 24 disturbance during which inmates used makeshift weapons to threaten guards, according to new information provided Wednesday to ...

With the opening of a new facility in El Dorado, Kansas, the AMAZONE Group continues to expand its activities in North America. This new US location complements its existing commitments in the North ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - El Dorado on Monday (Dec. 7) became the latest city to pass its own mask ordinance. The El Dorado City Commission voted Monday night to require masks for the first time since ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) issued several public health advisories for Kansas lakes due to ...

The Kansas secretary of corrections calls staffing shortages at a state prison an emergency. Worker shortages are a persistent problem the state prison system. Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz ...

Kansas is considering moving its execution chamber from Lansing to El Dorado. The state has not executed anyone since the 1960s, but the death penalty was reinstated in 1994 and a future execution ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections has been reducing the inmate population at the Lansing Correctional Center to ease the burden on the staff there. As a result, Lansing’s sister facility in El ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections may have downplayed the severity of an incident at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The incident began about 9 a.m. June 29, according to Robert Choromanski, ...