TOPEKA, Kan. — A spokeswoman says Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's administration is reviewing President Donald Trump's plan to extend supplemental unemployment benefits but is waiting for more details. A program providing an additional $600 a week to workers left unemployed by the coronavirus ...
Updated at 6:27 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — A Republican leader in the Kansas Legislature on Monday accused Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's top public health administrator of using a misleading presentation to bolster their argument for requiring people to wear masks in public as a debate rages over ...
Belle Plaine — A retired music teacher would become the first openly transgender member of the deeply conservative Kansas Legislature if she’s elected from a Democratic-leaning district she’s expected to win. Stephanie Byers, of Wichita, would join the ranks of other transgender people ...
Story updated at 6:37 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7: Topeka — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly tested negative for the coronavirus Friday as a Republican legislative leader faced criticism from some Democrats for not telling colleagues until this week that he’d been infected and hospitalized before he, Kelly ...
TOPEKA — Kansas House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr. tested positive for coronavirus last month, and a spokesman for Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday that she will get tested because she was in a meeting later with Ryckman and other legislative leaders. Ryckman is the highest-ranking Kansas official ...
TOPEKA — Republicans brimmed with newfound confidence Wednesday about keeping an open Senate seat in Kansas after establishment-backed Rep. Roger Marshall won the party's nomination, advancing to face an unusually formidable Democrat in a tough year for the GOP. Marshall's first tasks were ...
The 15 Kansas counties that followed through with Gov. Laura Kelly’s mask mandate are the only areas of the state actively reducing the spread of COVID-19, Kansas’ top health official said Wednesday. Dr. Lee Norman, Kansas secretary of health and environment, presented the new data at his ...
The race for Kansas' 42nd District House seat in 2020 saw a rematch of a primary that happened just two years prior — this time, it seems, with a different result. Incumbent Jim Karleskint, a Tonganoxie Republican, beat more conservative challenger Lance Neelly, a security and corrections ...
Five candidates in Douglas County faced no opposition Tuesday evening, and four of them will also run unopposed in November. Though running unopposed, all garnered significant numbers of votes in Tuesday's primary election. Those candidates are: -Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence, who ...
Christina Haswood, a 26-year-old lifelong Lawrence resident, is now poised to become both the youngest sitting member of the Kansas Legislature and only the third Native American in the body’s history after handily winning a contested Democratic primary for the Kansas 10th District House ...
Story updated at 10:54 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA — Freshman Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins lost his Republican primary Tuesday after being charged with felony election fraud and other crimes. State Treasurer Jake LaTurner unseated Watkins after arguing that the criminal charges against Watkins made an ...
Story updated at 10:54 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans on Tuesday nominated Rep. Roger Marshall for the Senate over polarizing conservative Kris Kobach, heeding the party establishment’s advice as it tries to keep a normally safe seat out of play in what could be a difficult year ...
Douglas County residents cast their votes by mail and at the polls Tuesday. A number of local and state races on the ballot will be decided in the primary, as no opponents from the opposite party filed to run in November's general election. Also on the ballot were contested primaries for ...
Despite an unprecedented global health crisis, Douglas County appears to be on pace to far surpass any previous voter turnout for a primary election. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew told the Journal-World Tuesday that projection is based on several factors, but most notably the county’s ...
The Kansas secretary of state’s office on Monday warned Kansans that they could expect some delays in the reporting of results from Tuesday’s primary election because of significant increases in requests for mail-in ballots brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the primaries for the ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Monday WICHITA — A Kansas Board of Education primary election has drawn more attention than usual after the panel voted against the governor's plan to delay the start of the school year due to the coronavirus pandemic. One member who had been running unopposed, Deena ...
Many primary races for public office will soon come to an end, and voters have one last day to make a decision. Tuesday is election day in Kansas, which is the final day for Douglas County voters to cast a ballot for many county, state and federal primary races. Voters have until 7 p.m. to ...
Topeka — Control of the Kansas Legislature could turn on dozens of down-ballot races in Tuesday’s primary election, in which many of the contests, particularly for the Kansas Senate, pit conservative Republicans against moderate incumbents. In Republican Senate primaries, moderates facing ...
Holton — Establishment GOP leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense battle for the nomination in Kansas’ U.S. Senate race, and they won’t be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump. Trump has signaled to allies that he won’t endorse in the primary ...
Belle Plaine — The Kansas State Finance Council has allocated more than $254 million of federal coronavirus relief funds mostly toward efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 and boost the state’s economy. The group’s unanimous approval on Wednesday slated the federal funds for public ...