TOPEKA — Kansas education commissioner Randy Watson says at least 31 Kansas schools are reporting outbreaks of COVID-19, forcing more school districts to close temporarily. COVID-19 cases are up dramatically in school-age children compared to last school year as school districts grapple with ...
TOPEKA — Voting rights attorneys battled Tuesday in Shawnee County District Court over the merits of a new law that threatens felony prosecution for any activities that could be mistaken as the work of an election official. Nonprofits including the League of Women Voters of Kansas sued the ...
TOPEKA, Kansas — Two out of every three Kansas inmates have had COVID-19, and Kansas saw the fifth-highest infection rate of prisoners in the country through the course of the pandemic. But when the Delta variant began driving up cases across the state, Kansas prisons largely avoided another ...
OLATHE — The father of a football coach at a suburban Kansas City high school said he hoped that his unvaccinated son's death from COVID-19 would convince people that the disease "is real." KMBC-TV reports that Chris Burnett, who coached football for Olathe East High School and an ...
The Kansas Attorney General’s Office is seeking outside legal help to investigate huge spikes in natural gas prices last winter, signaling the state could consider suing over the disaster. Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office announced in a news release Monday that it planned to hire a ...
The Biden administration is making $482 million available to aviation industry manufacturers to help them avert job or pay cuts in the pandemic. The taxpayer-funded relief will cover up to half of the payroll costs at 313 companies, according to the Transportation Department, which it said ...