HUTCHINSON – The three major candidates for Kansas governor traded barbs Saturday before hundreds of raucous supporters at the Kansas State Fair. Democrat Laura Kelly, a state senator from Topeka, charged Republican Kris Kobach with wanting to take Kansas back to “the devastation” of the ...
TOPEKA – An official with the Kansas Sierra Club said Friday that the group was pleased when a member of the Kansas Corporation Commission recused himself from a decision this week because of a potential conflict of interest. However, the environmental group remains concerned about further ...
TOPEKA — A liberal Kansas activist is challenging Secretary of State Kris Kobach's right to appear as the Republican nominee for governor on the November ballot, alleging that perhaps hundreds of legally cast ballots were not counted in his close primary race with Gov. Jeff Colyer. Davis ...
OLATHE — A 35-year-old Olathe man running for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives has been charged with election perjury. Adam Thomas, a Republican candidate in the 26th District House race, was charged Thursday. The Kansas City Star reports charging documents allege that Thomas ...
Story updated at 5:34 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018: OVERLAND PARK – The three major candidates for governor in Kansas faced each other for the first time Wednesday, offering vastly different views on taxes, education policy, illegal immigration and a host of other issues. Democrat Laura ...
TOPEKA - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to reverse a recent lower court ruling and uphold the state's latest workers' compensation law as constitutional. The case involves a Kansas City-area man, Howard Johnson III, who injured his back while ...
TOPEKA - Kansas tax receipts came in almost exactly as projected in August, the Kansas Department of Revenue said Tuesday. During August, the state collected $494.3 million in receipts from various kinds of taxes. That was about $6 million, or 1.27 percent, more than expected. Individual ...
Story updated at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 4, 2018: TOPEKA - Kansas Democrats on Tuesday filed a new objection to a Republican candidate running for the Kansas House in Johnson County, alleging he provided false information about where he lived at the time he changed his voter registration and filed for ...
TOPEKA - Former Republican Gov. Bill Graves on Tuesday formally endorsed Democrat Laura Kelly in the 2018 race for Kansas governor. “Laura Kelly is the only Democrat I have ever endorsed for public office,” Graves said in a statement released by the Kelly campaign. “And the reason I’m ...
TOPEKA – When Kansas voters went to the polls Aug. 7 for the Republican and Democratic primaries, voters in neighboring Missouri were doing the same thing. There, however, one issue on the ballot overshadowed most of the contested partisan races: a proposition to enact what is known as a ...
TOPEKA - An investigative journalist who is trying to obtain records from across the country of voters whose registrations have been purged from state voter rolls says he will likely sue Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for denying him access to those records. Greg Palast, an ...
TOPEKA - Douglas County will have to summon a citizen-initiated grand jury to investigate allegations that Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office mishandled voter registration information during the 2016 election, the Kansas Supreme Court said Friday. In a one-page order signed by Chief ...
TOPEKA — Turnout in the Aug. 7 primary elections in Kansas far exceeded expectations, state election officials said Friday. Bryan Caskey, who heads the elections division in the Kansas secretary of state's office, said 486,598 people cast ballots in the election, for a turnout rate of 27 ...
Story updated at 4:42 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31: TOPEKA – Republican House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr. is asking a member of his own caucus to resign and suspend his campaign following a broadcast report about accusations that he had emotionally abused children, and the Kansas Republican Party said ...
TOPEKA - A public interest watchdog group said Thursday that the Trump administration has complied with an agreement to destroy sensitive voter registration information that was collected by a now-defunct advisory commission on which Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach served as vice ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' child welfare agency failed to meet more than half of 30 federal and state performance standards last year, according to a report that used the agency's data. The Department for Children and Families released the report this week that showed it didn't meet 16 standards from ...
TOPEKA - A Lawrence attorney has alleged that Kansas energy regulators are continuing to allow oil and gas drillers to file applications for injection-well permits without providing adequate public notice, even as those regulators were conducting an investigation into complaints that the ...
Story updated 5:23 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018: TOPEKA - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has joined with officials from 15 other states in a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that transgender workers are not protected under federal workplace anti-discrimination laws. The ...
TOPEKA - Gov. Jeff Colyer's office announced Tuesday that communications director Kendall Marr has stepped down and that press secretary Kara Zeyer, formerly Kara Fullmer, will move into that position. Both Marr and Zeyer joined Colyer's office in 2017 when Colyer was still lieutenant governor ...
TOPEKA - Senior Kansas Republicans this week applauded President Donald Trump for reaching a tentative trade deal with Mexico. But at least one, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, also expressed skepticism of a proposed emergency aid package for farmers who ...