Gov-elect Laura Kelly will take over an agency with missing kids, outdated technology and not enough beds. Lawmakers, advocates and others are expecting improvements.
Meadowbrook Park is Johnson County’s newest regional park. It’s behind schedule but should open soon in Prairie Village and will rival Loose Park. It will have a clubhouse, trail, ponds and sledding hill.
Jayla Michelle Haag Watters was 18 months old and living in an El Dorado meth house when she died from abuse. Kansas will pay her father after he sued.
Leavenworth County’s administrator Mark Loughry said Friday that the public and the media “misconstrued” Commissioner Louis Klemp’s controversial “master race” comment made earlier this week.
Reps. Emanuel Cleaver and William Lacy Clay tore into Claire McCaskill and Democratic Party officials for failing to engage African American voters. Turnout in Kansas City and St. Louis surpassed recent mid-terms.
President Donald Trump will meet with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at his Mar-A-Lago resort next week. Bondi is on his attorney general short list. One name not on Trump’s list is Kris Kobach.
A class action lawsuit filed Friday in federal court accuses key Kansas officials of neglecting to properly care for some youth in care to the point it “renders children homeless while in state custody.”
Missouri’s Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has until early next month to decide whether to investigate allegations made by Democrats that Attorney General Josh Hawley illegally used public funds to support his campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Sedgwick County Republicans have elected their first openly gay party chairman, Dalton Glasscock, a former aide to Rep. Ron Estes and longtime advocate for Republican causes.
Gov.-elect Laura Kelly says she believes there’s momentum to pass a “Kansas-style” plan to legalize medical marijuana. Kansas is surrounded by states with legalized recreational or medical marijuana use.
Certified Johnson County election results were released Thursday, putting Hanzlick ahead of Osterhaus, Xu ahead of Rooker and Benson ahead of Rafie in close races. Candidates have until 5 p.m. Friday to request a recount.
Kansas City Council members on Thursday passed an economic development package aimed at revitalizing the city’s east side. The discussion over renaming The Paseo to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is ongoing.
Kansas Gov-elect Laura Kelly would ‘welcome’ a bill to restore protections eliminated by lawmakers in 2014. She also wants to strengthen the state’s civil service system.
Airlines are negotiating their way toward an agreement to fund a new single terminal at Kansas City International Airport, but they don’t agree on how to share the costs and didn’t appear at the City Council.
Despite public support from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, lawmakers are still stuck over how to deal with sexual harassment in the House and Senate.
Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announced Thursday that she has begun a long-awaited review of Jackson County government operations by first focusing on the COMBAT anti-drug and anti-violent crime program.
Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp referred this week to the ‘master race’ as he addressed a black city planner who was explaining a land use analysis to county officials at a board meeting.
City officials, civic leaders and YMCA staff celebrated the start of construction on the new downtown YMCA Friday, called the Downtown YMCA and Kirk Family Community Center. It's expected to open in late 2020 or early 2021.
