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 Friday that it is severing all ties with him.
But Rep. Michael Capps, R-Wichita, so far has indicated he intends to stay ...
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 percent. Before the election, Secretary of State Kris Kobach had predicted a little more than 25 percent turnout.
The ...
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 Justice Lawton Nuss, the court denied Kobach's request to review a Kansas Court of Appeals decision in June that said ...
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 regulators have not been enforcing legal public notice requirements for the last 10 years.
Robert Eye is an attorney ...
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 chair.
The action came in response to two lawsuits, both of which have now been dismissed, in which separate groups sought to ...
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 states, led by Nebraska, are asking the court to overturn a decision from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in ...
