TOPEKA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week it is proposing new rules that would exempt livestock operations from having to report the kinds of gases that are emitted from those facilities, something U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, has been pushing for himself.
During a visit to the EPA's regional office in Lenexa this week, Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a ...
TOPEKA - The Republican leader of the U.S. House and GOP congressional candidate Steve Watkins split with President Donald Trump on Friday regarding controversial statements the president made this week about citizenship and use of force at the border.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was in Topeka, along with other high-profile Republicans, to launch a final get-out-the vote effort for Watkins, ...
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- Judge rules against opening new Dodge City polling site days before election
TOPEKA — A federal judge in Topeka said Thursday that he will rule soon on a request from the American Civil Liberties Union for an order directing Ford County to reopen the one polling place that has traditionally been used for the entire city of Dodge City.
The ACLU filed that lawsuit last week in response to ...
TOPEKA - A Kansas Senate committee gave its approval Wednesday to Gov. Jeff Colyer's appointments of two new members of the Kansas Board of Regents and the reappointment of another, all three of whom are former state lawmakers.
The Board of Regents supervises higher education in Kansas. That includes governing the state's six Regents universities as well as public community colleges and technical colleges.
The ...
TOPEKA - Democrat Laura Kelly has raised $2.3 million during the general election cycle for her bid to be the next governor of Kansas, far more than Republican opponent Kris Kobach, even though recent polls show it to be an extremely close race.
According to campaign finance reports that were filed Monday, Kobach, the current secretary of state, raised just less than $1.4 million during the period. But nearly ...
TOPEKA - The three major candidates for governor in Kansas squared off in their last televised debate Tuesday evening, offering their thoughts and ideas on a handful of issues that hadn't been widely discussed during the campaign, such as their own campaign ads and their views about transgender bathrooms.
The debate, which took place in the studios of KSNW-TV in Wichita and was simulcast by its sister station ...
