TOPEKA — Workers were installing a permanent metal fence Friday around the Kansas governor's mansion in Topeka as part of security upgrades at Cedar Crest. The upgrades come after a federal Department of Homeland Security assessment of the property earlier this year. Gov. Laura Kelly's ...
Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday appointed three new members to the Kansas Board of Regents. The three are Carl Ice, Cynthia Lane and Wint Winter Jr., according to a news release from the governor's office. “These individuals are highly qualified, forward-thinking, and committed to ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Education plans to use a slice of $830 million in new federal funding for public education to address COVID-19 learning deficits by training K-3 teachers to help students absorb more from their reading. Half of the 10% set aside for the state agency must be ...
Updated at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA — Kansas will struggle to vaccinate residents and thousands of families will lose extra food aid because top Republican legislators on Tuesday ended a state of emergency for the coronavirus pandemic, a top aide to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said. Will ...
TOPEKA — Former Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer says a Kansas county election office isn't doing enough to protect him after it accidentally disclosed his Social Security number to a political research firm this spring. Colyer is running for governor in 2022, with Attorney General Derek Schmidt ...
TOPEKA — Waldron Mayor Shirley Nelson was happy to learn her tiny south-central Kansas community is slated to receive $1,517.07 in federal pandemic relief. State officials on Wednesday revealed the list of 614 small communities that will receive American Rescue Plan funds administered by the ...