TOPEKA — The Kansas House postponed action on a pair of surprisingly complex bills wading into driving privileges of teenagers and regulation of agricultural pipelines on the right-of-way of county roads.
Time to protect water in Kansas is running short. Parts of the aquifer in far western Kansas may only have 10 years of water left.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‚Äî Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Monday that she was open to lifting interest rates by more than the traditional quarter-point at the central bank’s next meeting in March.
WICHITA, Kansas — A video about racial profiling and discrimination was “not appropriate” for students or teachers at Derby High School, according to a Derby school board member who requested an apology from the principal who showed the video.
TOPEKA — Deep division marked the House health committee’s vote Monday to advance a bill forbidding Gov. Laura Kelly from proceeding with a plan to rebid contracts with companies providing $3.9 billion annually in Medicaid services to children, elderly and disabled.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office has asked the Kansas Supreme Court to dismiss two lawsuits that challenge new Republican-drawn congressional redistricting maps.
MCPHERSON – As a principal of an elementary school, one is required to wear many hats so that students and staff can grow in a positive school climate while feeling valued by those around them and that is exactly what one gets when entering the door of Washington Elementary School in McPherson.
A recent decision to let people continue treatment for drug addiction while in the Sedgwick County Jail in Wichita reflects a significant shift in thinking at Kansas sheriffs’ offices that is gaining momentum.
MCPHERSON – According to the Thursday release of a new Covid Report by the McPherson County Health Department (MCHD), McPherson County had one of its best reports of new cases in a while with only 72 new cases being recorded since the previous Thursday of February 10.
TOPEKA — House Republicans failed Thursday to gather sufficient support for a constitutional amendment that could provide legislators with new oversight of the executive branch. The resolution, if passed by a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers and approved by a popular vote of Kansans, would add a new section to the state constitution providing the Legislature the authority to set and revoke new rules within state agencies housed in the executive branch.