Topeka — When it comes to cybersecurity, most Kansas counties are behind. Overall, only eight county websites end in .gov, a domain extension that’s only given to governments. Most of Kansas’ 105 counties, including Douglas County, have websites ending in .org or .com. And 60 ...
TOPEKA — Kansas business groups have mobilized to snuff out a budding movement among a few cities to ban single-use plastic bags and straws, frustrating environmentalists who can't get the Republican-controlled Legislature to tackle climate issues. The GOP-led House commerce committee on ...
TOPEKA — A top Republican lawmaker in Kansas now running for the U.S. Senate sought an ambassadorship in 2018, calling it “an excellent time” to leave state politics and enlisting help from a billionaire casino mogul who is a close friend of President Donald Trump. The Wichita Eagle ...
TOPEKA — Environmentalists are struggling to get lawmakers to even discuss climate change as a serious issue in Kansas, where some leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature question the widespread scientific consensus that human activity is dangerously warming the planet. States such ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature’s auditing division says state agencies have significant information technology security weaknesses and haven't made progress since previous reports showed the same problems. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that more than half of 19 state agencies studied ...
A construction project at Clinton State Park veered off track when wastewater from a sewage lagoon was pumped onto the ground at a site near an open camping area, state officials now acknowledge. The Journal-World recently received tips from members of the public who became concerned that ...
Kansas City, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas who was publicly reprimanded for sexually harassing female employees and having an extramarital affair with an offender resigned on Tuesday, saying he could no longer effectively serve on the court. U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia, who was ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' elections chief is pushing to make the state's central voter registration database more secure by changing how counties tap into it, but some officials are nervous about what they see as a big project in a busy election year. Secretary of State Scott Schwab has told county ...
TOPEKA — A flurry of proposals in the Kansas Statehouse this session take aim at rising medical costs, including one that may be the state’s first attempt to rein in “surprise bills.” Republican Sen. Richard Hilderbrand has introduced two price-transparency proposals and Democratic ...
Iola — A Georgia nursing home company has been banned from working in Kansas for 10 years and fined $100,000 for failing to protect patient and employee records, Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Friday. An Allen County District Court judge approved the consent judgment against AltaCare ...
Story updated at 12:11 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — A top Republican lawmaker in Kansas on Friday disputed the claims of GOP colleagues that a bipartisan plan to expand the state's Medicaid program would lead to taxpayers funding elective abortions. Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, a Kansas ...
The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the country is filing for bankruptcy protection. McClatchy Co.'s 30 newsrooms, including The Charlotte Observer, The News and Observer in Raleigh, and The Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, will continue to ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' top election official says the state needs another year to prepare before it can give voters a choice of polling places on Election Day, even though it has been nearly 10 months since the Legislature enacted a law aimed at making voting more convenient and boosting ...
Houston — The Texas attorney general has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a California law prohibiting state employees from taking taxpayer-funded business trips to expos or conferences in Texas. Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the high court to reverse the ban on Monday, the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has removed a major obstacle to T-Mobile's $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint, as he rejected claims by a group of states that the deal would mean less competition and higher phone bills. Though the deal still needs a few more approvals, T-Mobile expects to ...
WICHITA — Nervous liberal arts professors. Stagnant enrollment. Costs rising faster than state funding. These are the challenges Kansas’ universities must decide how to handle. And the man making those decisions for Wichita State University is its new president, Jay Golden. Golden ...
Wichita — Faculty at state colleges in Kansas find themselves armed with fresh ammunition in their ongoing plea for more pay. New state data show most Kansas universities pay their instructors significantly less than similar universities in other states. While a dollar goes far in Kansas, ...
MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE — Nikki Heiman was excited to learn that the state was sending a job counselor to work with her son, Trenton, a high school student with Down syndrome. But that excitement fizzled when Heiman learned the specialist could only meet with Trenton once a month — and ...
Garden City — Rohingya refugees have made southwest Kansas home, but now a pipeline for family reunification could get cut off. Myanmar is one of the latest countries where refugees face a new ban on immigrant visas. The country’s Rohingya Muslim minorities have been fleeing genocide since ...
Topeka — Curtis Sneden remembers what impatient investors did to Topeka-based Payless Shoes: pressure for profits now and the bankruptcy that followed. Now the president of the Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce looks at regional utility giant Evergy and worries what might come of pressure ...