In rural Kansas, dreams — and nightmares of doomsday — are for …
Oct 6, 2024 · Walking down the truck-sized ramp to the 47-ton blast door of the decommissioned Atlas missile silo, our conversation echoes back to us from the steel door and the steep concrete walls on either side.
Kansas governor wary of overspending as Legislature’s budget …
Dec 20, 2024 · The unprecedented budget takeover by the Kansas Legislature will begin the 2025 legislative session with a bare bones spending plan and sweeping cuts while Republican lawmakers eye property and corporation tax reductions.
Kansas faces 'constitutional crisis' with rural attorney shortage ...
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Kansas voting update: More than a half-million ballots cast, …
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Kansans support marijuana legalization, but lawmakers won’t bite
Nov 1, 2024 · A wide majority of Kansans support legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, but a group of legislators assigned to weigh medical marijuana legalization declined to push the issue in the 2025 session.
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4 days ago · Trump to send 1,500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border BY: Ariana Figueroa - January 22, 2025 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Wednesday invoked an executive order he signed on his first day in office to send 1,500 military troops to the southern border, despite encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border being the lowest in several years.
New Republican Kansas senators say tax concerns led to larger ...
Jan 6, 2025 · TOPEKA — Two Republican Senate newcomers say the main reason they beat their Democratic incumbent opponents — and the reason behind the expanded Republican supermajorities in the Legislature — was constituents’ concerns about taxes. Brad Starnes, who will represent Riley County, is the first ...
A rainy Monday witnesses the final chapter in a notorious Kansas …
Nov 10, 2024 · The U.S. Courthouse stands in downtown Wichita in 2024. A federal judge ruled recently that more than $8 million recoverd by investigators in a cryptocurrency scheme that caused an Elkhart, Kansas, bank to fail would go to employees and shareholders of the bank.
Gov. Laura Kelly predicts Democrats will break Republican ...
Oct 21, 2024 · TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly expressed optimism a group of quality Democratic candidates and influence of her $2 million political action committee would break in the Nov. 5 election the partisan supermajorities held by Republicans in the both the House and Senate.