TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas on Monday reported another record seven-day spike in coronavirus cases, pushing the state past 100,000 for the pandemic as officials wrestled with getting more residents to wear masks. The state Department of Health and Environment added 5,920 new confirmed and probable ...
TOPEKA — Kansas saw most of a projected state budget shortfall melt away Friday with a fiscal forecast that is less pessimistic about the economy and tax collections than a dire estimate issued this spring during a statewide lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic. The forecasting group ...
BELLE PLAINE (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions Friday with far-reaching implications for same-sex couples, finding that parenting intentions at the moment of a child's birth are critical to establishing parental rights. Both cases involved birth mothers who conceived ...
TOPEKA — A Democratic candidate who admitted to circulating revenge porn and was charged at the age of 14 with threatening to shoot a high school student has won a state House seat in Kansas, and party leaders promised Thursday to try to oust him after what they saw as a threat against the ...
This week’s election set the stage for partisan fights in the Kansas Statehouse over things like redistricting, abortion, Medicaid expansion and pandemic-related aid. Democrats had hoped to crack the Republican supermajority in both chambers — thus taking away the GOP’s power to override ...
Updated story - ‘Hit’ tweet against Kansas governor has Democrats seeking ouster of 20-year-old TOPEKA (AP) — A Democratic candidate who admitted to circulating revenge porn and who was charged at the age of 14 with threatening to shoot a high school student has won a state House seat ...
Sen. Tom Holland saw his lead increase Wednesday as additional mail ballots were counted as part of the race for a state senate district that represents south Lawrence and the surrounding area. Holland, D-Baldwin City, had a lead of 748 votes over challenger Willie Dove, a Bonner Springs ...
TOPEKA — A former Wichita band teacher has been elected to serve as the first transgender lawmaker in Kansas. Democrat Stephanie Byers defeated Republican Cyndi Howerton in Tuesday's election for the Kansas 86th District, a Democratic-leaning district that includes parts of Wichita. ...
TOPEKA — Republicans retained their supermajority hold over the Kansas House and Senate on Tuesday, handing a crushing defeat to the Democratic Party despite record turnout and fundraising. Many eyes were on the top of the ticket ahead of Tuesday’s election, but results in races for the ...
Sen. Tom Holland was poised to narrowly fend off a conservative challenger on Tuesday to maintain his seat and ensure that Lawrence retains a second Democratic senator in the Kansas Legislature. Holland, D-Baldwin City, was ahead of veteran legislator Willie Dove by 627 votes as unofficial ...
Rep. Dennis “Boog” Highberger was handily beating a third-party candidate, while four other Lawrence legislators coasted to victory without opposition on Tuesday. Highberger, D-Lawrence, won his fourth term to represent Kansas House District 46, which includes the University of Kansas ...
All three Douglas County District Court judges on the ballot were set to retain their positions in Tuesday's vote, as were six state judges up for retention. As of Douglas County results updated at 9:13 p.m. Tuesday, District Court Chief Judge James McCabria was retained with 66.3% of the ...
Story updated at 10:59 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA (AP) — Republican Roger Marshall won the most competitive U.S. Senate race in Kansas in decades, while President Donald Trump carried the state again in the presidential race and voters elected two new Republican congressmen. The marquee race in ...
Even before polls opened Tuesday, Douglas County residents were on track to cast a record number of ballots in the 2020 general election. Strong advance voting in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic put the county above 50% voter turnout before Election Day, and it looked as if the county ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas voters have cast a record number of advance ballots. As of Sunday, 770,324 Kansas voters had returned mail-in or advance in-person ballots, according to the Kansas Secretary of State's office. "That is the highest number we've had prior to Election Day in the history of ...
Three Douglas County organizations failed state health code inspections in October. Each month, the Journal-World takes a look at inspection results and lists every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at ...
WICHITA — Both the Kansas Republican and Democratic parties have failed to disclose which candidates they are targeting with campaign mailers this election cycle. The Wichita Eagle reports that both major parties failed to provide that required information when they filed reports with the ...
After announcing in May that it was projecting a $120 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2021 because of losses from COVID-19, the University of Kansas on Friday announced that the deficit for this budget year is only $47.6 million — 60.3% less than the shortfall that was originally ...
Recent polling of national and statewide races in Kansas indicates that the Sunflower State, typically a Republican stronghold, will see closer races than it has in decades this Election Day, which is Nov. 3. Republican President Donald Trump won Kansas by 21 percentage points in 2016, but a ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday ordered flags across Kansas to be flown at half-staff after the state passed another somber milestone in the continuing fight against COVID-19: 1,000 killed by the novel respiratory virus. COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1,007 Kansans ...