The race for Kansas' 42nd District House seat in 2020 saw a rematch of a primary that happened just two years prior — this time, it seems, with a different result.
Incumbent Jim Karleskint, a Tonganoxie Republican, beat more conservative challenger Lance Neelly, a security and corrections worker, in 2018 and went on to win an easy general election. In 2020, Neelly, who again challenged Karleskint for the ...
The Kansas secretary of state’s office on Monday warned Kansans that they could expect some delays in the reporting of results from Tuesday’s primary election because of significant increases in requests for mail-in ballots brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the primaries for the 2018 midterms, the last major federal election, the office mailed a total of 51,211 ballots statewide, spokesperson Katie ...
Just three weeks before fall semester classes are set to begin, the University of Kansas on Monday released a revamped course schedule that includes in-person, hybrid, and entirely online courses as the university continues to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An email from the KU Registrar’s office to students Monday morning informed them that a two-week reconfiguration of the university’s entire course ...
After President Donald Trump's suggestion Thursday morning that the Nov. 3 general election should be delayed, only two members of Kansas' congressional delegation specifically said they opposed the idea when asked for comment by the Journal-World.
Rep. Sharice Davids, the state's lone Democrat in Congress, and outgoing Sen. Pat Roberts both voiced clear opposition to postponing the general election. Three of ...
Kansas' top health official on Wednesday took a bit of a detour from his normal weekly media briefings to talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Kansans' mental health.
Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, was joined by Dr. Susan Voorhees, a Topeka-based psychologist who specializes in treating children affected by trauma. Voorhees and Norman spent much of ...
The thousands of students at the University of Kansas who were set to make the traditional walk through the Campanile and down the hill this May, but weren't able to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will have their own commencement ceremony in May 2021, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Wednesday.
Girod said KU had ruled out the possibility of being able to safely hold the ceremony during the coming ...
