Topeka — Kansas will not stop paying extended federal unemployment benefits that started during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly said. Business groups, companies and Republican leaders have been pressuring Kelly to end the benefits, which include extra $300 weekly unemployment ...
TOPEKA — About 7,000 Kansans lost unemployment benefits this week because they did not meet a deadline to sign up for a new state program designed to help people find a job. Legislators inserted the work search requirement into House Bill 2196 earlier this year. Mike Beene, director of ...
TOPEKA — Attorney General Derek Schmidt wants the Kansas Supreme Court to directly consider an appeal of the lower court decision declaring unconstitutional a new state law realigning government authority during disaster emergencies. Schmidt filed notice to challenge the Johnson County ...
Updated at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday Gov. Laura Kelly has directed that flags be lowered to half-staff on all state buildings, grounds and facilities effective immediately until the day of interment, in honor of Kansas Rep. Ron Howard. Howard, a Wichita Republican, died Tuesday from a lengthy ...
TOPEKA — Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius generated political blowback by comparing people rejecting COVID-19 vaccinations to individuals who brazenly threatened the health of others by driving while intoxicated or by fouling air in public spaces with cigarette smoke. Sebelius, who also ...
TOPEKA — A retired assistant U.S. attorney who once led the prosecution of the accused mastermind of the deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole is running for Kansas attorney general next year. Tony Mattivi on Monday launched his campaign for the Republican nomination by announcing that ...