TOPEKA — Two Kansas legislators asked federal energy regulators to ensure competitive bidding occurs on transmission projects, objecting to policies that handed a southcentral Kansas project to investor-owned utility Evergy without a formal bidding process. Speaker of the House Dan Hawkins ...
Meagan Bacon was diagnosed with cancer seven years ago. She credits the staff at the University of Kansas Health System for saving her life. Bacon worked in retail pharmacy at the time, but applied to be a pharmacy technician with the KU Health System in order to help others like ...
During debate over the budget reconciliation law that became known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Douglas County advocates warned that proposed drastic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would seriously harm people facing hunger. Those fears seem to have come true, ...
Residents of Galena are complaining about a smelly construction and demolition landfill outside of the city that they say is impacting their quality of life and could affect their health. They’ve been complaining about two odors — a rotten-egg smell that the Kansas Department of Health ...
Four candidates filed for Kansas House races in the Douglas County area close to the June 1 deadline, and two of them have turned uncontested general election races into contested ones. Every seat in the Kansas House is up for election this year, and some of the districts in Douglas County ...
Monday was the deadline to file for the 2026 elections in Kansas, which will include contests for governor, a U.S. Senate seat, all four U.S. House seats and every single seat in the Kansas House of Representatives. Three of the five seats on the Douglas County Commission are up for election as ...