State Government

Kansas governor thwarts small legal settlement with business over COVID-19 restrictions

Story updated at 6:19 p.m. Thursday, May 11: TOPEKA — Kansas' Democratic governor on Thursday scuttled a small legal settlement favored by top Republican officials between the state and the owner of a Wichita fitness studio forced to shut down during the first months of the coronavirus ...

Kansas loses legal fight over voting law passed in 2021

MISSION — Kansas has lost a legal fight over one of the voting laws that its Republican-led Legislature passed in the wake of the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled Thursday that it was unconstitutional to make it a crime for groups to include voters' names, addresses ...