12.16.24 – TOPEKA (KSNT) Several new laws are set to go into effect at the start of next year in Kansas, including legislation that will finally do away with the state’s tax on food. Lawmakers in the Kansas Legislature passed more than a hundred new...
12.9.24 – The Sentinel – Vic Miller (D-Topeka). Leadership elections for the next Kansas Legislature are complete, with Republicans growing their supermajority. There were few surprises with top leaders from both parties in both houses remaining largely...
(Getty Images) 12.4.24 – StateScoop Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced a $10.7 million round of funding for the state’s Advancing Digital Opportunities to Promote Technology program. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Wednesday the state is opening a second...
11.29.24 – Topeka Capital-Journal Kansas has the oldest fire code in country. An update was ‘derailed’ by new law. The Kansas fire marshal told lawmakers that his office’s efforts to update the state’s fire code have been stymied by a...
Wichita Republican Sen. Renee Erickson, center in white, said the Kansas Legislature should ask Attorney General Kris Kobach for a nonbinding legal opinion about constitutionality of creating a program to exempt certain businesses from state laws, regulations or...
The Kansas unemployment rate increased to 3.4% in October, up from 3.3% in August and September and 2.7% in March. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector) 11.15.24 – Kansas Reflector- By: Tim Carpenter The unemployment rate in Kansas increased to 3.4% in October,...