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 ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican lawmakers in Kansas learned Monday that they didn't have the votes yet to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a GOP redistricting plan that would make it harder for the state's only Democrat in Congress to win reelection. The GOP-controlled state ...