Kansas lawmakers mounted last-minute efforts Saturday to resurrect two rejected coal plants. Two days after a failed effort to overrule a regulator's rejection and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of the two proposed western Kansas coal plants, lawmakers in the House tried one more push.
Camptown Greyhound Park owner Phil Ruffin has ended negotiations with the Kansas Lottery that would reopen the racetrack with slot machines, the Lottery Commission says.
A recent string of copper thefts has some southwestern Kansas farmers worrying about their property and reconsidering how to protect it.
They lost everything, too. Their homes. Their livelihoods. A church. A brother. In the days and weeks after an EF-5 tornado roared through Greensburg, hundreds of people outside the town began to piece their lives back together, too.
Don't think just because you've filed your income tax return that you can forget about taxes until next year. The real fun starts now when you can look at your return to make decisions about tax moves in 2008.
Rural rotations by doctors who get specialized training in Wichita will be funded by $1.5 million included in a health care reform package sent to the governor Saturday.
As Kansas lawmakers work toward final adjournment, Senate leaders are getting nervous about the economy and the current level of state spending.
It appears unlikely that the Legislature this year will pass a law cracking down on illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.
Senate and House negotiators reached a tentative compromise Friday on a bill to require voters to show photo identification at the polls.
Car-door-slamming winds crashed the kickoff of a three-day celebration here Friday commemorating the one-year anniversary of an EF-5 tornado that tore apart most of the town.
Still lacking the votes Friday to overturn Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a bill allowing two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas, House leaders circulated a resolution that would allow the Legislature to sue her.
House lawmakers may have found an additional $8.6 million to help train doctors in Wichita -- though not how people originally envisioned.
Anne Hobbs was angry. The head of the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission had just learned of a Hispanic couple who said their landlord asked for their driver's licenses -- but didn't ask the same of non-Hispanic tenants.
The day after top negotiators said a compromise immigration bill was in danger of not passing, they said Thursday that it could be back on track.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius won round one Thursday in the House fight over her veto of a bill that would allow two coal-fired power plants to be built near Holcomb.
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said Wednesday that he doesn't think it's helpful to debate whether the U.S. Constitution is a "living" or "dead" document.
More than six months of wrangling comes to a head today in the Legislature with a final faceoff over two proposed western Kansas power plants.
Abortion opponents in the Senate failed Wednesday to override the governor's veto of a bill aimed at strengthening enforcement of late-term abortion laws.
Kansas earned a "B" in a new report that graded states on their policies for releasing information about fatal and near-fatal child abuse cases.
Brooks Middle School will hold its 50th anniversary celebration Thursday night at the school, 3802 E. 27th St. North. Tours of the building are from 5 to 6:30 p.m., with an alumni basketball game from 6 to 7, guest speakers and a program in the auditorium at 7:15, and a meet-and-greet session with past staff and alumni from 7:45 to 9.
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