TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas gun rights supporters are pushing to lower the age for concealed carry of firearms from 21 to 18. Wichita Republican Rep. Blake Carpenter and a Kansas State Rifle Association lobbyist on Wednesday told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that it's already legal ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he plans to make promoting racial reconciliation a focus of his life as a private citizen after more than a quarter century in politics. Brownback, 64, stepped down as the country's ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom ...
Story updated at 6:37 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials on Wednesday sought to determine whether a coronavirus variant might be fueling a new outbreak at a minimum-security state prison where inmates regularly work in surrounding communities. The state Department of ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators suggested Tuesday that mistakes by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's administration are making it more difficult for older Kansas residents to get COVID-19 vaccine shots. But Dr. Lee Norman, the head of the state health department and Kelly's top public health ...
TOPEKA — Members of a Kansas House panel have heard testimony from Democratic lawmakers pushing for Kansas to join a handful of states observing a day honoring Native Americans instead of Christopher Columbus, but a chief proponent said he doubted that the bill would get a vote. The House ...
A nominating commission has selected a Lawrence woman as one of three possibilities to fill the vacancy on the Kansas Court of Appeals. Jacy J. Hurst, of Lawrence, is a partner at Kutak Rock, where she provides general legal counsel in health care regulatory compliance and employment law, ...