TOPEKA — Twelve years ago, 90 third-grade students walked into District Judge Robert Wonnell’s courtroom on Constitution Day to watch a hearing about whether Goldilocks was guilty of trespassing. Wonnell put the last-minute mock trial together to teach Olathe’s Forest View Elementary ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a Kansas House seat. Senior election officials disagreed ...
HUTCHINSON — Candidates for governor engaged in a veritable bare-knuckle brawl when they took the stage Saturday at the Kansas State Fair for a debate punctuated by the chants and jeers of an enthusiastic crowd of dueling supporters. Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican ...
HUTCHINSON — Incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and the Rev. Adam Hamilton, a Democrat, confronted a raucous crowd Saturday defending their stances on tariffs, the war in Iran and partisan politics. The two major party candidates running for U.S. Senate appeared in their first ...
TOPEKA — Kansas tax collections trended upward in the first two months of fiscal year 2027 coming in 6.5% above estimates, the state reported. Total Kansas receipts, including taxes and other revenue, such as interest, for July and August were $113.9 million, or 10% above estimates, ...
TOPEKA — The Aug. 4 primary election, which featured contentious races and a hot-button ballot question, had the second-highest primary voter turnout in Kansas history, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. More than 650,000 Kansans cast ballots on and leading up to the election, ...