TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators are close to committing up to $1 billion in surplus state funds to shore up Kansas’ pension fund for teachers and government workers despite bipartisan misgivings about that move ruling out some tax cuts.
MILLINGTON, Tenn. – A Leon, Kansas, native is serving with Naval Ice Center supporting Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022 in the Arctic Ocean.
WASHINGTON (AP) At first, the White House resisted calls from Congress to ban Russian oil imports to the U.S. And then, it did just that.
TOPEKA — Republicans and Democrats along with a voter advocacy group introduced Thursday three competing redistricting maps outlining new boundaries for the 40 Kansas Senate districts in response to population shifts during the past decade.
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An 18-year-old football player was charged Saturday in a shooting that wounded an administrator and a school resource officer at a suburban Kansas City high school.
Wildfires in Butler, Reno and Harvey County proved deadly over the weekend - a death announced by the Hutchison Fire Department. In Butler County at about 5 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration ordered new sanctions blocking Russian business oligarchs and others in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle on Thursday in response to Russian forces’ fierce pummeling of Ukraine.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrats in Kansas filed a third lawsuit Tuesday against a congressional redistricting law enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing that GOP gerrymandering aimed to “practically void” Democratic votes in the liberal enclave of Lawrence.
WICHITA — The Kansas Turnpike Authority announces bids have been approved and contracts awarded on two upcoming Turnpike projects. Contract 7800 to remove an overhead KTA bridge at mile marker 55.507, and construct improvements on Main Street in Andover, KS, was awarded to Dondlinger & Sons Construction Co., Wichita, KS, for $370,069.90.
The Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office recently announced the winners of its “SAFE Speaks” competition. SAFE, an acronym for Seatbelts Are For Everyone, is a free, student-led program for middle and high school students focusing on peer-to-peer promotion of traffic safety.