TOPEKA — Kansas legislators signed off Wednesday on the state's largest-ever taxpayer-funded incentives to attract thousands of new jobs even though most didn't know the name of the company or what it plans to make. The measure also cuts corporate income tax rates. The Republican-controlled ...
Story updated at 2:57 p.m. Wednesday: TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas on Wednesday overrode the Democratic governor's veto of a redistricting plan that politically hurts the state's only Democrat in Congress, likely plunging Kansas into a national legal brawl amid the contest for ...
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers are close to authorizing more than $1 billion in state incentives in hopes of attracting an undisclosed, $4 billion project from an unnamed company. The Republican-controlled House voted 80-41 on Tuesday to approve a bill that would set up a new program within the ...
TOPEKA — Republicans on Tuesday revived a redistricting plan that would make it harder for the only Kansas Democrat in Congress to win reelection, engineering a second-chance override of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of the measure in the state Senate. The Senate vote Tuesday was 27-11 ...
Story updated at 3:36 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8: TOPEKA — Fellow Republican conservatives rallied Tuesday behind a Kansas physician-legislator who's under investigation by the state medical board, advancing his measures to protect doctors pursuing potentially dangerous treatments for COVID-19 and ...
TOPEKA — Former BNSF Railway chief executive officer Carl Ice responded to a battery of questions Monday from members of the Senate Education Committee engaged in a follow-up review of Gov. Laura Kelly’s three nominees to the Kansas Board of Regents. An interim Kansas Senate committee ...