TOPEKA — With independent candidate Greg Orman now officially in the race for governor in Kansas, Republicans and Democrats alike are scrambling to figure out how he affects the race. Orman, 49, an Olathe businessman, first made political news in Kansas in 2014 when he ran as an independent ...
Story updated 5:51 p.m. Aug. 17, 2018: TOPEKA – Kansas election officials announced Friday that independent candidate Greg Orman gathered more than enough valid petition signatures to qualify to be on the Nov. 6 general election ballot in the governor's race. He will appear on the ballot ...
TOPEKA – The Kansas economy recorded its 14th consecutive month of job growth in July, the Kansas Department of Labor said Friday. Preliminary numbers show that on a seasonally adjusted basis, Kansas gained 23,400 nonfarm jobs overall during that period, including 20,900 private-sector ...
An official canvass of primary election ballots in Douglas County on Thursday gave Gov. Jeff Colyer a net gain of 20 votes in the Republican gubernatorial primary, a small consolation after he conceded the race two days earlier. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said after the canvass that 66 ...
TOPEKA - Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach kicked off his general election campaign for governor on Wednesday in a race that some political experts are now describing as a toss-up. "The general election begins today. The race is on," Kobach said during a news conference outside the ...
Story updated at 8:49 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018: TOPEKA – Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer on Tuesday conceded the hotly contested Republican gubernatorial primary and congratulated Secretary of State Kris Kobach on his win. Colyer made the announcement at a Statehouse news conference around 7:30 ...
Nearly 31 percent of registered voters in Kansas have no party preference but they are allowed to vote in the Democratic and Republican primaries if they declare allegiance to one of the parties before casting their ballot. But these unaffiliated voters and what constitutes "declaring ...
Updated story - Colyer concedes GOP primary, congratulates Kobach TOPEKA – With the state’s two largest counties reporting their provisional ballot counts on Tuesday, the hotly-contested Republican primary for governor tilted a little more in favor of Kansas Secretary of State Kris ...
More than 313,000 ballots were cast in the hotly contested Republican primary for Kansas governor, but the two candidates are separated only by about 200 votes. Secretary of State Kris Kobach leads Gov. Jeff Colyer after all regular ballots were counted, including mail-in and absentee votes. ...
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew expects to be working Saturday recounting about 8,600 county ballots cast in the Aug. 7 Republican primary for governor. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach held a 110-vote lead over Gov. Jeff Colyer after the state’s 105 counties finished counting late ...
In a deeply conservative state where some fellow Republicans built national reputations, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer is known mostly as a low-key policy wonk and once compared himself to the "Star Trek" character Mr. Spock. The 58-year-old former surgeon is locked in a remarkably close GOP ...
Story updated at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, 2018: County boards of canvassers began meeting Monday to sift through thousands of provisional ballots that were cast in the Aug. 7 primary — ballots that will likely determine who will be declared the winner in the tight GOP primary race for ...
WICHITA — Kansas election officials began reviewing some 9,000 provisional ballots Monday as the two candidates in the state's tight GOP primary for governor appeared to dig in for a long and potentially nasty legal fight that could take weeks to play out. Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a ...
TOPEKA - Conservative Republicans gained back some of the territory they lost in the Kansas House in 2016, but how much additional strength they will have next year still depends on the outcome of the Nov. 6 general elections. Conservatives had dominated the House GOP caucus - and, therefore, ...
Story updated at 6:13 p.m. Aug. 10, 2018: TOPEKA — The razor-thin margin in the Republican primary for governor in Kansas continued to change throughout the day Friday as several counties, including Douglas County, tallied up mail-in ballots that have come in since Tuesday. As of 6:10 p.m., ...
Story updated 6:53 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, 2018: Topeka (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach stepped aside from his duties as the state’s top elections official Friday until his hotly contested Republican primary challenge to Gov. Jeff Colyer is resolved, but Colyer argued that ...
TOPEKA - A Shawnee County judge on Thursday refused to issue a temporary injunction that would have blocked the state of Kansas from moving forward to implement new contracts for managing KanCare, but he will hear arguments later this month on whether the process of awarding those contracts ...
Updated story - Kansas governor’s office: Kobach’s promise to recuse himself not enough Story updated 9:50 p.m. Aug. 9, 2018: TOPEKA — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Thursday that he will remove himself from the further counting of votes while his Republican primary ...
WICHITA — More than 3,700 Kansas voters cast ballots for two 17-year-old candidates in Tuesday's election for the GOP nomination for Kansas governor — a race that is still undecided because the vote was too close to declare a winner. Tyler Ruzich, of Prairie Village, and Joseph Tutera Jr., ...
There are potentially more than 800 votes yet to be counted from Tuesday’s primary in Douglas County, according to numbers from the Douglas County Clerk's Office. That means Douglas County alone has enough uncounted ballots to swing the gubernatorial race between Gov. Jeff Colyer and ...