TOPEKA — Proposed restrictions in Kansas on the foreign ownership of land died Friday when the state's Democratic governor vetoed a bill that top Republican lawmakers argued would protect military bases from Chinese spying. The Kansas House's top GOP leader accused Gov. Laura Kelly of ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' Democratic governor on Friday vetoed a bill aimed at ensuring that child support payments cover fetuses, a measure critics saw as a move by anti-abortion groups toward giving them the same rights as the mothers-to-be carrying them. The measure scuttled by Gov. Laura Kelly ...
Rising spring temperatures and weather conditions will likely push hundreds of millions of birds northward this weekend — and bird lovers in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa will get a front-row seat. A mind-boggling variety of warblers, cuckoos, flycatchers, orioles, buntings and other ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior missed the deadline to respond to a letter from U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran’s office urging a “systemic overhaul” of the federal office that oversees Haskell Indian Nations University, the Journal-World has learned. As the Journal-World has reported, Moran, ...
A Lawrence man who engaged police in a nine-hour standoff at an apartment complex in 2023 was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday, but he has already served the majority of his time. The man, Shawn Anthony Daniels, 42, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with one ...
For the kids at Limestone Community School, understanding the need for affordable housing isn’t rocket science. Over the course of more than a year, the school’s second and third grade students have been studying ways to get more people in the community into secure housing. They've learned ...
