The top elections official in Kansas said Tuesday he will push for a change in state law to start requiring some potential voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship beginning June 15, six months earlier than expected.
According to a study presented to the House Redistricting Committee, voting in Kansas in 2008 and 2010 was racially and ethnically polarized, something legislators will have to consider as they redraw district maps.
LENEXA - A man held two employees of Sonic at gunpoint Sunday night and fled the business with an undisclosed amount of cash, police officials said Tuesday.
A joint legislative committee recommended Tuesday expansion of vocational training for juveniles in state custody and action to prevent mixing violent and nonviolent offenders in community residential facilities.
WASHINGTON - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family wants a memorial in the nation's capital redesigned, saying the current plans overemphasize his humble Kansas roots and neglect his accomplishments in World War II and the White House.
TACOMA, Wash. - Thousands of people were expected Tuesday at a memorial service for Margaret Anderson, the Mount Rainier National Park ranger with Kansas ties who was fatally shot on New Year's Day.
Gov. Sam Brownback revealed Tuesday a $16 million incentive package to support expansion of Bombardier's Learjet site in Wichita based on the possibility of creating 450 jobs over a decade.
HUTCHINSON - Kansas State Fair officials are working to improve the experience for people watching a concert from the fair's grandstand.
The work is difficult because the 85-year-old grandstand is nearly 450 feet long.
MEDICINE LODGE - An environmental group is launching a $1 million campaign to obtain conservation easements in the Red Hills of Kansas to prevent development that could endanger vulnerable animals like the lesser prairie chicken.