Kansas News

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has asked for an investigation into an immigration reform protest held outside his Wyandotte County home.

Members of a Kansas National Guard helicopter unit are on their way home from Afghanistan after a year of providing medical support.

A northwest Kansas man convicted of shooting another man and wounding a woman as the couple slept will go to prison for more than 17 years.

Steve Inslee, the manager of the OK Co-op grain elevator in Kiowa, said Monday a few local farmers began hauling in wheat last Thursday.

A minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ashland says she was sorting through some boxes at the church when she found one filled with some unusual Bibles.

Neither Kansas Sens. Pat Roberts nor Jerry Moran could claim any of the 641 total appearances by senators from 2010 through June 3 on the big Sunday news shows.

Kansans pay the second-highest state sales tax in the nation on groceries. Let's eliminate this tax so all Kansans can benefit.

For Kansans June, July and August are months when some of us return to our roots and visit family in rural communities across the state.

For more information on the Kansas License Plate Collectors Association, contact Duane Johnson, 785-233-4499 or jayhawk333@cox.net In Kansas, collectors have a century of plates from 105 counties to choose from.

An intense debate in Kansas over adopting multistate academic standards for public schools has exposed longstanding tensions between the Legislature and the State Board of Education over control of what happens in classrooms.

A mob protesting against deportation of illegal immigrants descended Saturday evening on the Kansas City home of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Kimberly Scaler, the new administrator of the Junction City Arts Council, is attempting to keep the organization going after an extended period without state funding.

Brownback signed the bill containing a budget of more than $14 billion for each of the next two fiscal years, starting in July.

Kansas universities and colleges are beginning to come to grips with what they are calling "devastating" budget cuts imposed by the state Legislature.

Lecompton Territorial Days, which includes a carnival, pancake feed, Bleeding Kansas play and pioneer skills demonstration, will be Friday and Saturday, June 21-22, in Lecompton.

Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is setting his sights on raising $5 million in his bid to return to Washington for another six-year term, even with no opposition on the immediate horizon.

A certified public accountant from Leawood who's also an insurance industry executive has launched a campaign for the Republican nomination for Kansas insurance commissioner.

A Manhattan man who has been both a Democrat and a Republican is working to form a third political party in Kansas to provide moderates a platform in the political process.

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas was right when he criticized the new farm bill that passed his chamber last week for price supports that benefit primarily Southern crops such as peanuts and rice.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback was still reviewing the state budget Friday and will likely decide this weekend whether to veto any items, a spokeswoman said.