CHICAGO — Actress and climate activist Julia Louis-Dreyfus asked eight Democratic women governors Wednesday if she would be ready for public office after playing a vice president and president on the hit cable TV show “Veep.” “You’re more qualified than Donald Trump, don’t worry ...
Story updated at 5:12 p.m. Aug. 21: The University of Kansas has won a $26 million federal grant — one of its largest in history — to help develop new technologies that will make everything from air conditioners to refrigerators more environmentally friendly. The National Science ...
A Lawrence attorney who challenged Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez in the recent Democratic Primary Election has been appointed by the Kansas Supreme Court to the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct. Tonda Hill, who works in Wyandotte County as a prosecutor, came in ...
TOPEKA — Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and eight leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature unanimously ...
Kansans have chosen an image of the iconic Flint Hills as the state's next personalized license plate design. The Kansas Department of Revenue said Monday that more than 30,000 votes were cast, and the design showing the hills with the sun and a colorful sky was chosen. Five designs were put ...
TOPEKA — Fifteen states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance. The states are seeking to ...