Douglas County could gain more representation in the Legislature if a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution is approved by voters on Nov. 5. The amendment would end Kansas’ practice of adjusting official U.S. Census numbers to eliminate nonresident college students and military ...
TOPEKA — The only Democratic candidate running for an eastern Kansas congressional seat has dropped out of the race. Abbie Hodgson announced Tuesday that she was ending her campaign in the 2nd District. WIBW-TV reports that Hodgson said she didn't have a "viable path" for winning the seat ...
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Donaldo Morales caught a break when federal prosecutors declined to charge him after he was arrested for using a fake Social Security card so he could work at a Kansas restaurant. But the break was short-lived. Kansas authorities stepped in and obtained a state conviction ...
TOPEKA — A former Kansas Democratic congresswoman has dropped out of the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Pat Roberts. Former U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda formed a campaign committee in June to run for the Democratic nomination next year. Former federal prosecutor and ...
Eleven organizations in Douglas County failed state health code inspections in September. Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov. There, ...
TOPEKA — Kansas’ new director of tourism used to have difficulty seeing herself reflected in Kansas’ advertising campaigns. It was “outdoors focused,” she said, and apart from her love of watching Kansas sunsets, Bridgette Jobe doesn’t see herself as outdoorsy. Jobe, who grew up ...
TOPEKA — Kansas has seen a big jump in syphilis cases over the past five years and a spike in the number of infants born with the sexually transmitted disease. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday that Kansas reported 152 cases of primary and secondary ...
TOPEKA — Greg Orman says he has no plans to run for political office "anytime soon" after unsuccessful campaigns as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate and governor in Kansas. The Kansas City-area businessman made the statement in an email to supporters Tuesday touting a column for ...
As Mike Perryman watched floodwaters surround his home in rural Douglas County while his wife and daughter were still inside, he wondered what could have caused such a disaster. While he was aware of the 8 to 10 inches of rain in the weather forecast the night of July 31, seeing the ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has joined a legal battle to save a federal program that shields young immigrants from deportation. Kelly's move Friday puts the Democratic governor and Republican Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on opposite sides of a case before the U.S. Supreme ...
As the number of seniors in Douglas County grows, a shortage of health care providers in the local workforce will become a larger issue. To help address that issue, the state needs to find ways to make sure health care providers earn a living wage, Democratic state Sen. Marci Francisco said ...
Topeka — Only 18% of Kansas economic development funds were spent as intended in the last fiscal year, in part because there is little oversight of how money for a state economic development fund is spent, according to state auditors. In a report released Wednesday, auditors said that during ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly is discounting Republican calls to rescind a policy requiring out-of-state online businesses to collect sales taxes on sales in Kansas and remit the tax to the state. On Monday, Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued a nonbinding opinion that Kelly's administration ...
TOPEKA — Kansas is reporting that it collected $43 million more in taxes than anticipated in September. The Department of Revenue said Tuesday that the state collected $744 million in taxes during the month when its official revenue forecast predicted $701 million. The surplus is nearly ...
California’s decision to allow college athletes to make money through endorsements could lead to many other states following in its footsteps. But Kansas likely won’t be one of them, said state Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita. “The Legislature — in my 20 years there — tends to defer to the ...
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has opened a review of options for expanding Medicaid in Kansas with warnings against work requirements and a limited expansion. Kelly gave opening remarks Monday at the first meeting of a council she appointed to provide the Republican-controlled ...
Updated at 5:34 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Kansas’ Republican attorney general declared Monday that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration lacked the legal authority to impose what some experts have seen as the nation’s most aggressive policy for collecting state and local taxes on ...
The number of Kansas children living in areas of concentrated poverty has dropped 13%, a data snapshot released recently from the Annie E. Casey foundation states. From 2013-2017, the number of Kansas children living in areas of concentrated poverty was 51,000, a decrease from 56,000 from ...
The number of suicides among Kansas children increased by more than 50% from 2016 to 2017, according to a report released Wednesday from the Kansas State Child Death Review Board. In 2017, 32 Kansas children died by suicide, an increase from 20 in 2016. One decade ago, the youth suicide rate ...
TOPEKA — Kansas is reporting its second death from a vaping-related lung disease in less than two weeks. Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday that a man over 50 has died. The state health department said it is not releasing the names, hometowns or other details about people who've died or ...