Updated at 4 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Democrats, a civil rights group and a national elections watchdog filed two lawsuits Monday against Kansas officials over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state's only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district ...
OLATHE — A California man was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed at a suburban Kansas City, Kansas, airport over the weekend, authorities said. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the pilot as Robert Douglas Ming, 51, of Laguna Niguel, California, television station KSHB ...
TOPEKA — Top Kansas Republicans appeared to get the new congressional district lines they wanted this week through horse-trading in the Legislature. Then, hours after the map became law, the GOP leader who supposedly struck the deal seemed to go back on it. A Republican physician-lawmaker ...
Updated at 2:48 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — The Republican-led Senate Education Committee has offered its unqualified support for only one of Gov. Laura Kelly's three nominees to the Kansas Board of Regents. On Thursday, the committee unanimously recommended Senate confirmation of former BNSF ...
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators signed off Wednesday on the state's largest-ever taxpayer-funded incentives to attract thousands of new jobs even though most didn't know the name of the company or what it plans to make. The measure also cuts corporate income tax rates. The Republican-controlled ...
Story updated at 2:57 p.m. Wednesday: TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas on Wednesday overrode the Democratic governor's veto of a redistricting plan that politically hurts the state's only Democrat in Congress, likely plunging Kansas into a national legal brawl amid the contest for ...