TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Labor is making a push this week to sign unemployment claimants up for the state’s new reemployment assistance program. The enhanced My Reemployment Plan program, part of House Bill 2196 approved by the Kansas Legislature in May, is intended to help those ...

Updated at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA — A Republican lawmaker questioned Tuesday whether Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's administration made unemployment fraud worse by not conducting adequate background checks on hundreds of people hired to help with a surge of claims during the pandemic. ...

TOPEKA — Republican Jeff Colyer is confident he would have defeated Democrat Laura Kelly in the November 2018 race for governor. The impediment to a Colyer-Kelly showdown, of course, was that Colyer fell 172 votes short of beating Kris Kobach in the closest statewide GOP primary election in ...

OVERLAND PARK — The chairman of the Kansas House Redistricting Committee is running for reelection to his legislative seat next year after considering a run for Congress. State Rep. Chris Croft, an Overland Park Republican, filed the necessary paperwork this week with the Kansas secretary of ...

OVERLAND PARK — Local Democrats have selected a 44-year-old Overland Park attorney to fill a vacancy in the Kansas House. Dan Osman will replace former Democratic Rep. Jennifer Day, also from Overland Park, who resigned in June because she was moving outside the district. Democrats selected ...

Topeka — Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Wednesday that he will ask the Kansas Supreme Court to reconsider a historic 2019 ruling declaring access to abortion a “fundamental right” under the state constitution. Schmidt filed a notice Tuesday that he plans to appeal an April lower ...