Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said Tuesday that his office wasn't in a position to require voters to wear masks when they head to the polls, although he urged residents to "be safe" and follow local public health guidance.
Mark and Rhonda Simpson have been taking advantage of Shawnee County's advance voting system for upwards of a decade, even before concerns about the U.S. Postal Service prompted many to look at employing the practice.
Ten residents have died from COVID-19 at a Norton County nursing home, county health officials said in a news release Monday night, with all 52 remaining residents infected with the virus.
Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla, who is running against State Treasurer Jake LaTurner for the District 2 U.S Congress seat, stopped in Pittsburg on Saturday to meet with local Democrats and appeal to still undecided voters.
In her role as nursing manager at Pittsburg's Ascension Via Christi Hospital, Jessica Cobb is normally tasked with making the emergency room and intensive care facilities run like a Swiss watch.
In 2018, state Sen. Barbara Bollier had grown tired of infighting within the Republican Party she had called hers since the beginning of her political career.
The state's unemployment rate dipped to 5.9% in September, dropping a full point from the 6.9% mark the month prior, according to data released Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Economic recovery, police reform and marijuana legalization are three issues on which the candidates vying to represent Kansas House of Representatives District 53 differ.
Now in his sixth year representing District 50 in the Kansas House of Representatives, Rep. Fred Patton is hoping people in the northern Shawnee County district will elect him to a seventh and eighth year in the Statehouse.
Increases in hospitalization in some corners of the state should be a "wake-up call" to residents, Lee Norman, secretary of health and environment, said Wednesday.
When Sen. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, won his first election in 1976, he was 23 years old and unseated an incumbent lawmaker, surprising many on election night - including his own mother.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, arguably the country's most powerful business organization, endorsed Republican congressional candidate Jake LaTurner on Wednesday.
Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla, Republican Jake LaTurner and Libertarian Robert Garrard are competing to represent Kansas' 2nd Congressional District, which stretches from Leavenworth through Topeka down to Pittsburg.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has announced more than $9 million in grants for projects to strengthen the state's food supply system.
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