As part of a new state law limiting the ability of students to conduct a walkout protest, the Kansas State Board of Education is considering a complaint form that would invite people to report protests that they believe violate the law. The new law bars students from attending a walkout ...
TOPEKA — A Douglas County District Court judge issued a temporary injunction Thursday keeping in place a 2017 state law allowing the counting of advance mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but arriving at county offices up to three days after polls closed. Judge Carl Folsom’s order ...
Updated at 6:20 p.m. Monday, July 13 Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday appointed District Judge Krishnan Christopher Jayaram to serve as a justice on the seven-member Kansas Supreme Court. Jayaram, of Lenexa, was among three finalists to fill the open seat created by Justice Marla Luckert’s ...
TOPEKA — Kansas counties issued $18.3 billion in industrial revenue bonds to new and existing businesses between 2010 and 2024, leaving about $1.1 billion in potential property taxes on the table, legislators learned Wednesday. The Legislative Post Audit Committee reviewed an audit of ...
There were only a few ticks left on the clock until retirement officially began. Blake Flanders, president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, had agreed to do a 2 p.m. interview with the Journal-World on June 30, the last day of the state’s fiscal year. That also meant it was the last ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall vowed to be on the Kansas general election ballot in November and to decline administrative appointment from President Donald Trump during the next two years. Marshall, a Kansas Republican seeking reelection to a second term in the U.S. Senate, made the ...