TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and top Republican legislators agreed Tuesday to try for now to encourage Kansas counties to adopt local mask mandates rather than consider a statewide rule as the state experiences its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases of the pandemic. Kelly had a ...
One of the only contested legislative races in the Douglas County area — between incumbent Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, and Rep. Willie Dove, R-Bonner Springs, for the 3rd District Senate seat — has seen an influx of tens of thousands of fundraising dollars between the two ...
Updated at 6:43 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Kansas on Monday reported record highs for its seven-day rolling averages of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, and a spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said she was considering calling the Republican-controlled Legislature into a special ...
Kansas counties that have mandated the use of face masks in public have seen much lower spread of COVID-19 than the statewide average, new research from the University of Kansas shows. The analysis by KU's Institute for Policy and Social Research found that counties with mask mandates had ...
Student leaders at the University of Kansas are seeking a reprieve from classes on Nov. 3, the date of the 2020 election, so that the KU community has every available opportunity to cast their ballot. The thinking, according to KU student body vice president Grant Daily, is that although ...
Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny will join the Kansas Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Kansas Judicial Branch. The first case Pokorny will hear with the court is an appeal in a Reno County criminal case. Samuel ...
Story updated at 4:06 p.m. Thursday MISSION (AP) — Kansas’ coronavirus case count continued to climb, even as one GOP lawmaker pushed back against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s call for a statewide mask mandate. “I’ve stated all along, and still believe, a one-size-fits-all COVID ...
Updated at 5:03 p.m. Wednesday Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that she will soon open discussions with state legislative leaders to ways in which a bipartisan consensus could be reached on instituting a mask mandate for the entire state of Kansas. Kelly's initial statewide mask mandate, ...
Story updated at 1:29 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA (AP) — Health care workers and long-term care residents will be among those who will get the coronavirus vaccine first in Kansas, a draft plan shows. Kansas’ 45-page plan was filed in the past week with the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Story updated at 5:06 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20: TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas man who prosecutors say threatened to kidnap and kill Wichita’s mayor because he was upset with the city’s mask ordinance was charged Tuesday with three counts of criminal threat. Meredith Dowty, 59, of Wichita, is ...
Local and state leaders hope a multimillion-dollar federal grant awarded Thursday could help create hundreds of bioscience jobs in Lawrence and help launch a new innovation district on the University of Kansas' west campus. Government officials gathered Thursday at KU's Bioscience and ...
Douglas County has gone another week without an outbreak of COVID-19 severe enough to be named in the state Department of Health and Environment's list of locations that were attributed to a virus spread of more than five cases in the past 14 days. KDHE's list, released each Wednesday, has ...
Communities and organizations across the state of Kansas can now apply to receive additional funding for COVID-19 testing through the state Department of Health and Environment, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday. KDHE late last week posted a request for proposals from state communities and ...
Just over three weeks before the general election, efforts to register as many voters as possible in Douglas County have been ongoing leading up to Kansas' voter registration deadline Tuesday — specifically among a group that while eligible to do so, traditionally doesn’t vote at a high ...
Many important local and state offices will be on the ballot in the general election on Nov. 3. This voters guide will help you get to know some of the issues at stake and refresh your memory about some of the local races that were all but decided during August's primaries. To view the ...
As Kansas prepares for its most consequential and closest Senate race in a generation — one that could elect a Democrat to the seat for the first time since 1932 — two medical doctors, Democrat Barbara Bollier and Republican Roger Marshall, are both running campaigns focused on what they ...
One of the only contested races in the Douglas County area for the Kansas Legislature will pit longtime incumbent Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, against current Rep. Willie Dove, R-Bonner Springs, for the state’s 3rd District Senate seat. Holland, a moderate Democrat who lost a 2010 bid to ...
While the 2020 general election will decide many major political races, a lot of local candidates won’t face challengers on Nov. 3. In Douglas County, 11 state and county races on the ballot will be uncontested — either those races were decided between candidates during the primary ...
Topeka mayor Michelle De La Isla and Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner will be facing off this year in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District — a seat that was decided by less than 1% of the vote in the 2018 midterms. De La Isla, a Democrat, and LaTurner, a Republican, are vying for the U.S. ...
WICHITA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday called for the creation of a nonpartisan commission to handle redrawing state legislative and congressional districts after a video surfaced that shows a top Republican lawmaker discuss how gerrymandering can help oust the state's sole Democratic ...