TOPEKA — A powerful Kansas business group said Friday that it has received subpoenas from the state ethics commission for information about campaign finance activities as Republican lawmakers pushed but then abruptly dropped a plan to oust the commission's top staffer. A spokesperson for the ...
Sen. Tom Holland says he has hired an attorney to challenge a new Kansas Senate map that removes all of his district’s Lawrence territory and largely replaces with it Johnson County communities. “I’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court,” Holland, D-Baldwin City, said of his ...
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers have given final approval to a redistricting measure that's likely to preserve Republican supermajorities in the Legislature while possibly moving the state school board to the right. The state Senate on Wednesday night approved, 29-11, a single bill containing ...
TOPEKA — Kansas senators on Wednesday backed a measure prohibiting municipal governments from creating “sanctuary cities,” rejecting concerns about the speed with which the measure was moving through the Legislature. The measure, House Bill 2717, is a response to action taken by the ...
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly says the state of Kansas itself won't enforce a federal COVID vaccine mandate for nursing home workers, but federal officials will still be monitoring nursing homes in the state to make sure workers are complying. Kelly announced her policy on the vaccine ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas are pushing a redistricting plan that the state Senate's top GOP leader hopes will move the state school board to the right and give conservatives more say over what's taught in public schools. The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would redraw ...