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Gov. Sam Brownback has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff from sun-up to sundown Saturday in honor of Sgt.

The bill allows alcohol tastings at events put on by nonprofit groups to support the arts.

There is a constitutional fight brewing between Kansas, whose current governor is a former federal legislator, and the Obama Administration over the passage of a state law banning federal agents from enforcing national gun control mandates and regulations when all firearms business is conducted between citizens within the state's boundaries.

A new legislative proposal to give favored tax treatment in Kansas to groceries failed Wednesday to break a stalemate among top Republican lawmakers on tax issues, prompting GOP Gov.

Nine head coaching contracts were renewed Wednesday when the Barton Community College Board of Trustees met, but the contracts of two head coaches are "pending final review." The board discussed personnel matters behind closed doors for nearly an hour before voting on head coach contracts, administrative contracts and contracts for managerial ... (more)

The Salvation Army sent teams of ministers and volunteers to Oklahoma Tuesday to help provide emotional and spiritual care after a massive tornado devastated parts of Moore, Okla., killing dozens and injuring hundreds.

Gov. Sam Brownback, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and KDHE Secretary Bob Moser celebrated the more than 5-thousand kansans who participated on Tuesday.

So President Obama didn't know anything about the IRS targeting conservative groups.

Graduation days are celebrations of hard work expended and the future opportunities that have been earned.

Sam Brownback's plan to stabilize the budget by canceling a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax.

As revenues ebb under the income-tax cuts, state leaders are looking at everything as a potential place to cut spending.

In 2010, a group of Democrats and moderate Republicans, led by Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, took one for the team by passing a 1 cent sales tax increase.

Often a phenomenon of bad marriages, "selective deafness" is when one hears only what is convenient.

Despite all the news media attention on the 3 ongoing Obama administration scandals there is a state /federal level battle that is playing out in Kansas between the Governor and the US Attorney General Eric Holder.

Sam Brownback prepared to give a "There's no place like home" presentation on his political reform efforts to the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago.

Legislative leaders hoped negotiations would resume Monday on proposed budgets of roughly $14.5 billion for each of the next two fiscal years, beginning in July.

Core services – The current cost-cutting efforts of state government should spur serious conversation about what Gov.

A prominent conservative Kansas legislator has launched what could become the most aggressive campaign to date to rein in the state Supreme Court after a proposal failed that would have changed how its justices are selected.

At the invitation of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Ethan Kaufman, Russell High School, Taylor Fry, Great Bend High School and Conner Birzer, Ellinwood High School, were selected to attend the 30th Annual Governor's Scholars Awards Program on May 5, in Topeka.

Kansas State Board of Agriculture The Kansas State Board of Agriculture is composed of nine members appointed by the governor.