A Democrat-aligned political action committee supporting female candidates has waded into Kansas' U.S. Senate race, announcing a slate of ads attacking Republican U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall.
Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday that conflict with legislators on the State Finance Council over extending her emergency declaration was merely an attempt by Republicans to make "political hay" ahead of the November election.
When back-to-school day was approaching, Victor Rodriguez decided his oldest child, who is registered with Whitson Elementary School in Topeka, was staying home.
The state's business community and public health officials have generally shared a common goal over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: keeping Kansans, and by extension consumers, safe.
After a prolonged tussle, the State Finance Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the state's COVID-19 emergency declaration until Oct. 15 after Gov. Laura Kelly assured members she wouldn't seek again to close businesses.
The Kansas Board of Regents will ask Gov. Laura Kelly to consider restoring funding for the state's four-year universities back to the level at which the state Legislature had set funding before Kelly made pandemic-related cuts.
The Kansas Department of Corrections announced Thursday that a fifth inmate death has been linked to COVID-19, this time at Larned Correctional Facility.
Gov. Laura Kelly told a congressional committee Thursday that "significantly more support" is needed from the federal government, saying that Kansas' experience with sweeping cuts to state services should be a warning shot.
The state's task force in charge of COVID-19 relief money has set aside about $173 million of the $290 million remaining statewide CARES Act funding, upon approval by the State Finance Council.
A coalition of some of the state's most powerful business groups is asking the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to reverse its decision to make the locations of COVID-19 outbreaks public.