HUTCHINSON — The owner of a south-central Kansas bakery did not expect a Facebook post she made last Thursday to go viral and end up featured on the New York Times homepage on Sunday. Holly Thomas, the owner of Holly’s Sweet Treats on Main Street in Hutchinson, made a post about a $678 ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Senate Republicans’ top campaign spending organization is pulling back in North Carolina and pouring money into Kansas, a striking shift that shows how the party’s plan to keep its majority has turned into an increasingly defensive fight ahead of November’s midterms. The ...
From an AI energy boom to a banking system bust, a set of speakers at the Dole Institute of Politics will be examining those issues and more as part of the Lawrence center’s fall schedule of events. Sheila Bair, a University of Kansas alumna and former chair of the FDIC, will be one of the ...
Four candidates filed for Kansas House races in the area close to the June 1 deadline, including a Tonganoxie Democrat. In addition, two of those filings have turned uncontested general election races into contested ones. Every seat in the Kansas House is up for election this year, and some ...
TOPEKA — A coalition of federal lawmakers from Kansas introduced in the U.S. House last week a bipartisan bill that could offer interest-free loans to rural hospitals “hanging on by a thread.” U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids and Tracey Mann of Kansas and representatives from Alabama, ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids and U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt of Kansas expressed various shades of alarm about fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents taking part in an aggressive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. The death Saturday of Alex Pretti, who ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas House budget committee continued adjusting a bare-bones state government appropriations bill that deleted more than $540 million from agency requests for program enhancements, salary adjustments and hiring new employees. Subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee ...
There are three local residents who have filed for the Leavenworth County Commission race for the Fifth District. Cody Reynolds, David Todd and Tim Kates will be running in the race. Commissioner Mike Stieben recently announced that he would not be seeking re-election. He was named commission ...
A challenger had the highest vote total in Tuesday’s Tonganoxie City Council race, while a current school board member nabbed the highest total in the USD 464 race. Rev. Matthew Wilke won one of three seats on the Tonganoxie City Council. The Tonganoxie United Methodist Church pastor ...
The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks. Politico obtained thousands of pages of chats among leaders of Young Republican chapters across the country. ...
