TOPEKA — Sen. Renee Erickson challenged a Kansas State Board of Education member to identify who he was referring to when criticizing individuals serving on the Legislature’s school finance reform task force. Erickson, a Wichita Republican who chairs the task force, brought a discussion on ...
TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and cattle industries. In a decision last week from a Texas federal court, the lesser ...
TOPEKA — Firefighters responded to an overnight fire outside headquarters of the Johnson County Republican Party in Overland Park that resulted in no injuries last week, but the incident inspired inflammatory comments by the leader of the Kansas GOP, who placed responsibility on liberals. In ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach on Thursday asked a federal court to remove Gov. Laura Kelly from a multi-state lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s refusal to release grant money to states. Kelly joined 22 states and the District of Columbia in the lawsuit last ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly appointed an attorney in private practice who has argued cases before the state and federal appellate courts to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court. The governor said Thursday that she’d selected Larkin Walsh from among three finalists nominated by a ...
UPDATED 5:15 P.M. AUG. 6 The University of Kansas is implementing an immediate hiring freeze as KU’s top leaders are ordering deans and other department heads to find $32 million in annual savings on the Lawrence campus. A Wednesday message to KU employees from Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer ...