Story updated at 6:13 p.m. Aug. 10, 2018: TOPEKA — The razor-thin margin in the Republican primary for governor in Kansas continued to change throughout the day Friday as several counties, including Douglas County, tallied up mail-in ballots that have come in since Tuesday. As of 6:10 p.m., with all 105 counties reporting their mail-in ballots, Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s lead over incumbent Gov. Jeff ...
TOPEKA - A Shawnee County judge on Thursday refused to issue a temporary injunction that would have blocked the state of Kansas from moving forward to implement new contracts for managing KanCare, but he will hear arguments later this month on whether the process of awarding those contracts violated federal law. Judge Franklin Theis issued that ruling at the end of a hearing where attorneys for Amerigroup ...
Story updated 6:26 p.m. Aug. 8, 2018: TOPEKA – National Republican groups are already launching an all-out campaign against Lawrence Democrat Paul Davis in the 2nd District congressional race, a seat that could help determine which party controls the U.S. House after the November midterm elections. But their task may have been made more difficult Tuesday night when political newcomer Steve Watkins emerged as ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Jeff Colyer and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach both said Wednesday that they are moving forward with their plans for a general election campaign, even though results of their hotly contested primary race may not be known for weeks. Kobach emerged from Tuesday's primary with a razor-thin lead over Colyer of just 191 votes, out of roughly 311,000 Republican ballots cast, for a margin of ...
TOPEKA - After a primary election campaign that has lasted more than a year for some candidates, polls finally opened this morning and all candidates had left to do was sit back and see whether their strategy worked. That's especially true in the Republican primary for governor, where the top three or four candidates all ran vastly different campaigns. Among the top two, at least according to the few polls ...
Story updated 8:30 a.m. Aug. 8 TOPEKA — State Sen. Laura Kelly won the Democratic primary for Kansas governor on Tuesday, but it could take until Friday at the earliest before anyone knows who won the Republican primary. Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, the GOP primary for governor was still too close to call, even with all the state's precincts reporting. Secretary of State Kris Kobach was leading incumbent ...