On a day when the nation’s top cybersecurity crime fighter was on the University of Kansas campus, leaders announced that KU has received $22 million in federal funding to build a new national security research center in Lawrence. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced that a yearslong ...
Updated at 8:02 p.m. Thursday, April 4, 2024 TOPEKA — A bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers in Kansas scuttled a plan for cutting taxes Thursday, with Republicans defying GOP leaders and Democrats ignoring a personal appeal from the state's Democratic governor. The state House ...
TOPEKA — Republicans are likely to approve a proposed state budget for Kansas with provisions aimed at forcing the state's Democratic governor to restrict diversity initiatives on college campuses and help Texas in its fight with the Biden administration over border security. GOP negotiators ...
TOPEKA — Kansas is poised to increase penalties for killing police dogs and horses after legislators gave their final approval Tuesday to a measure inspired by a suspect's strangling of a dog last year in the state's largest city. The Republican-controlled state House approved a bill with a ...
TOPEKA — An audit released Tuesday by Kansas' attorney general concluded that the state is losing more than $20 million a year because its Insurance Department is lax in overseeing one of its programs. The department said the audit is flawed and should be “discounted nearly in its ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas have revived a proposal to stop giving voters three extra days after polls close to return mail ballots after making key concessions in a bid to get enough votes from rural GOP lawmakers to overcome the Democratic governor's potential ...