Topeka — Republicans in the Kansas House on Thursday outlined a plan aimed at revitalizing rural areas, helping people to buy their first homes and lowering income taxes for seniors. GOP leaders said they will pursue five bills. They announced that they have launched a new website and ...
Topeka — Opposition from top Republican lawmakers in Kansas appears to have doomed Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s plan to tax streaming services, e-books, and movie and music downloads like most other states do. Kelly and fellow Democrats pitch it as basic fairness. Consumers who buy or ...
Topeka — Kansas’ high court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit over funding for the state’s court system filed by six trial-court judges against the Republican-controlled Legislature. The state Supreme Court said in a short order signed by Chief Justice Marla Luckert that it’s ...
Wichita — An insurance company must reimburse a Kansas man for the personal care his wife provided after he was injured in an automobile accident, the state Supreme Court ruled in rejecting that spouses are required to provide such support without compensation. The decision handed down ...
Story updated at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — Abortion rights backers grappled with how to derail a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution as abortion foes marked Wednesday's anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision by advancing two versions of the ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has appointed the commander of the Kansas Air National Guard to replace Gen. Lee Tafanelli as adjutant general on March 31. The adjutant general is the principal military adviser to the governor and oversees the adjutant general's department, which includes the Kansas ...
TOPEKA — Conservative Republican lawmakers are looking to modify a bipartisan plan for expanding Medicaid in Kansas by adding two provisions that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly opposes. GOP conservatives want to insert a work requirement for able-bodied adults who receive the state’s Medicaid ...
Kansas City, Mo. — A gunman who opened fire outside of a Kansas City nightclub, killing a woman and injuring at least 15 other people before a guard killed him, had a past weapons charge dropped after lawmakers loosened the state’s gun laws. Jahron Swift, 29, had been in trouble with the ...
Evergy, Kansas’ largest electric utility, has hired a financial adviser to study the company’s future after a major investment group heavily criticized the utility and said it should be sold or reorganized. Elliott Management Corporation, a New York-based investment group that owns about ...
TOPEKA — Consultants have recommended the state spend more than $100 million to renovate the Docking State Office Building in Topeka, in part to consolidate state agencies in the building adjacent to the Kansas Capitol. The Kansas Department of Administration report released Tuesday at a ...
TOPEKA — A lawmaker who made national headlines for switching to the Democratic Party has ended her campaign for a state Senate seat and will run for re-election to the House instead. Rep. Stephanie Clayton of Overland Park said Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly encouraged her last ...
Story updated at 4:38 p.m. Monday KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An armed security guard saved several lives when he shot and killed a heavily armed man who opened fire on a line of people waiting to get into a Kansas City, Missouri, bar, killing one person and wounding at least 15 others, Kansas City's ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Time was, a fledgling tech company called CivicPlus had to explain to prospective customers why it was based in Kansas — and not some tech-heavy coastal city. “We said, ‘Hey, you get Midwest values, but with Silicon Valley quality,’” recalled Ward Morgan, owner ...
Hutchinson (ap) — A small earthquake was reported in southern Kansas on Sunday. The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck about 2 miles southwest of Hutchinson shortly after 1 p.m. No damage was immediately reported. The earthquake happened near where several others ...
Topeka — Natalie Zarate entered state custody when she was 11 years old, removed from a physically abusive mother and placed in a group home for foster children. Now 23, she trembles when she thinks about her time at EmberHope Youthville in Newton. Physicians placed Zarate on “crazy ...
Topeka — Kansas lawmakers expect to have their most serious debate so far on medical marijuana this year, fueling high hopes for advocates who have been stymied by the state’s prohibitionist roots and Republican-controlled Legislature. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has said she would sign a ...
An independent review of Kansas’ rising electricity prices shows the current system for setting rates could use some improvements. In a lengthy report requested by state legislators and submitted by London Economics, analysts concluded three main things: The current ratemaking process has ...
Wichita — Moody’s Investors Service said Friday that layoffs at Spirit AeroSystems are “credit negative” for the city of Wichita, Sedgwick County and local communities because the workforce reduction threatens retail sales, lowering sales tax revenues that support government ...
Kansas City, Mo. — A plane slid off an icy taxiway at Kansas City International Airport on Friday as a sprawling winter storm hit large sections of the Midwest and beyond, leading to the closure of schools, universities and government offices. The Delta Air Lines flight was taxiing to be ...
Topeka — Former Republican Kansas governor and plastic surgeon Jeff Colyer is about to add Chaka Khan backup singer to his resume. Colyer is part of a student and faculty choir that will join the “Queen of Funk” on stage for a Martin Luther King Day event hosted by Georgetown University ...