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Kansas IT official reveals $3.8M dispute with Legislature, minimum $1.1M federal penalty

The Kansas Department of Administration informed a legislative committee Monday of budget problems in the executive branch's central IT operation because → Read More

Panel nominates two attorneys, one judge for Kansas Supreme Court vacancy

Two lawyers working for the Kansas attorney general and the Shawnee County District Court's chief judge were nominated Friday for a vacancy on the Kansas → Read More

Democratic candidate Barry Grissom ends U.S. Senate campaign

Kansas Democratic candidate Barry Grissom ended his campaign Thursday for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Pat Roberts, departing one day after → Read More

Unemployment rate in Kansas holds steady at 3.5 percent in April

Kansas added construction and business service jobs in April to hold the state's unemployment rate at 3.5 percent for the second month, officials said → Read More

Gov. Laura Kelly cancels pair of no-bid IT contracts valued at $111 million

Gov. Laura Kelly finalized the decision Thursday to terminate a pair of 10-year contracts with CGI Technologies valued at $111 million that were → Read More

Gov. Laura Kelly's selection of next Court of Appeals judge hangs in balance

The Kansas Supreme Court engaged in unprecedented oral argument Thursday about a vacancy on the state's second-highest court pitting the attorney general → Read More

Former KCC executive director returns to regulatory agency as one of three commissioners

Susan Duffy resumed work at the Kansas Corporation Commission on Wednesday as one of three commissioners on the utility, transportation and energy regulatory panel following an eight-year absence.Duffy, appointed a commissioner by Gov. Laura Kelly, served as executive director of the KCC from 2003 to 2011. She most recently was general manager at Topeka Metropolitan Transit Agency, which… → Read More

Kansans hungry for lower food sales tax, uneasy with overall tax burden

Frustration billowed from lips of Great Bend resident Dorv Conell, a man impatient for Kansas lawmakers to deliver relief from an unconventional state → Read More

Kansas Highway Patrol's top officer driven out for downplaying abuse, sex scandals

The former superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol was forced to resign despite asserting he appropriately responded to sexual misconduct and domestic → Read More

Gov. Laura Kelly asks legislators to avoid tax mistakes of Brownback era

Gov. Laura Kelly pressed the Republican-led Legislature to proceed cautiously on tax reform legislation Thursday to avoid producing an impulsive, sweeping → Read More

Kansas Legislature fails to override Kelly on vetoed abortion bill

The Republican-led Legislature failed Wednesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a bill mandating Kansas physicians tell patients prescribed pills → Read More

Former Salina senator pads state salary with travel, food vouchers

The former Republican senator hired as Gov. Jeff Colyer's regulatory fixer billed Kansas taxpayers thousands of dollars for driving to and from the job in → Read More

Gov. Laura Kelly nominates replacement for Court of Appeals vacancy

Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday nominated a Lenexa attorney who argued abortion cases on behalf of the state to fill a vacancy on the state Court of Appeals → Read More

Capitol Insider podcast: Mega-utility poles a lightning rod of controversy in Wichita neighborhood

WICHITA — Pained words of Pastor William Vann inside Iasis Christian Center competed against industrial clamor of electric transmission line crews → Read More

Gov. Laura Kelly vows to mend child safety net, ditch 'all-punitive' prison model

WICHITA — Gov. Laura Kelly joined a couple of hundred loyalists Tuesday to feast on the new reality of Kansas politics.Kelly, a Democrat in GOP- → Read More

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signs bills on 'strong' beer sales, DUI testing

Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill clarifying the state government's role in liquor enforcement and taxation of retailers making use of new authority to sell → Read More

Kansas House passes K-12 funding bill subject to Supreme Court review

The Kansas House voted to approve legislation Thursday authorizing a $90 million increase in annual state aid to public education to comply with a court → Read More

Kansas Senate approves controversial nominee to lead commerce department

The Kansas Senate voted Monday to confirm Gov. Laura Kelly's nominee to lead the Kansas Department of Commerce amid skepticism about his economic development resume, personal attacks leveled by conservatives and criticism of health grants tied to an abortion doctor.David Toland, who prevailed 23-14 after a Senate committee rejected the nomination, survived an effort by the Kansas Republican… → Read More

Kansas House propels controversy with $5.3 million aviation tax break

Three Kansas House representatives' views on a proposed $5.3 million tax break to benefit aerospace companies and employees revealed complexities of politicians shaping government investment in private industry.Rep. J.R. Claeys, a Republican from Salina, home to Kansas State University's aviation campus, was author of the bill creating two income tax credits designed to boost profitability of… → Read More

Top Kansas Highway Patrol officials resign; Shawnee County sheriff to fill superintendent job

The top two leaders of the Kansas Highway Patrol abruptly resigned from their jobs Thursday in a shake-up of the state’s largest law enforcement agency.Shawnee County Sheriff Herman Jones, a former KHP administrator and trooper, will take over the agency on Wednesday, said Gov. Laura Kelly. The governor said Jones, with a 40-year career in law enforcement, was the right person to lead the agency… → Read More