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Good morning everyone: Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend and taking a respite from news, although it didn't seem to let up until late Thursday. We had to really work to cobble this ...
The parent company of a new specially chartered Kansas financial institution was unable to file its annual financial report Tuesday after a shakeup in leadership. The Dallas-based Beneficient notified ...
Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher of Overland Park this morning officially launched a campaign for Kansas governor. "I’m running for governor to find real solutions and to put real Kansans first,” ...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt on Friday named a new assistant insurance commissioner to replace Barb Rankin. Schmidt appointed Clay Johnson, now the agency's assistant general counsel, ...
(Updated to reflect federal appeals court ruling keeping Trump deployment order in place) Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday joined with 21 other states supporting California's federal lawsuit ...
As Mike Brown's term as chair of the Kansas Republican Party neared an end, the state GOP spent tens of thousands of dollars celebrating President Donald Trump's election and toasting "America's ...
A screening panel on Tuesday recommended two district judges and a lawyer in private practice to Gov. Laura Kelly to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court. After five rounds of voting, the ...
(Updated with comments from Kobach, governor and the ACLU) A state appeals court panel on Friday gave Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration the go-ahead to allow transgender Kansans to change their gender ...
Barb Rankin is leaving her position as assistant insurance commissioner, retiring after 17 years in state government and 43 years practicing as an attorney. Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt hired ...
The Kansas Board of Regents on Friday named a new president for Pittsburg State University with more than 20 years of higher education experience with a record of building student enrollment at ...
(Updated to include comment from the Shawnee Mission and KCK Districts) Republican Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is asking the federal government to investigate whether four Kansas school ...
A federal judge said he hopes to decide by early next week whether to immediately block a new state law that bans foreign money from flowing into campaigns for state constitutional amendments. U.S.