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Former Kansas Rep. Larry Hibbard, a Greenwood County farmer and rancher who served in the House from 2013 to 2019, died Sunday. He was 81. A moderate Republican from Toronto, he helped overturn Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s state income tax...

TOPEKA — Democratic U.S. House candidate Lauren Reinhold says she has found a way to connect with disaffected Republicans and independent voters. She has traveled more than 35,000 miles as she campaigns in the 1st District, which thanks to GOP...

LAWRENCE — Democrat Adam Hamilton says reporting by Kansas Reflector and MS NOW warrants an ethics investigation into whether his opponent, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, misused government resources to support his campaign. The reporting looked at audio recordings, photos, videos...

Traducido por Claudia Amaro. Nota del editor: Esta historia es una colaboración entre Kansas Reflector y MS NOW . Mientras el senador Roger Marshall lucha por su vida política en Kansas, un asistente del demócrata Adam Hamilton — oponente de...

Editor’s note: This story is a collaboration between Kansas Reflector and MS NOW . As Sen. Roger Marshall fights for his political life in Kansas, a staffer for Democrat Adam Hamilton — Marshall’s opponent — has been needling the Republican...

TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a...

Traducido por Claudia Amaro. HUTCHINSON — Los candidatos a gobernador se enzarzaron en una verdadera pelea a puño limpio cuando subieron al escenario el sábado en la Feria Estatal de Kansas para un debate marcado por los cánticos y abucheos...

HUTCHINSON — Candidates for governor engaged in a veritable bare-knuckle brawl when they took the stage Saturday at the Kansas State Fair for a debate punctuated by the chants and jeers of an enthusiastic crowd of dueling supporters. Kansas Senate...

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Friday in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The lowering of flags from sunup to sundown will honor those who lost their...

TOPEKA — Rep. Brooklynne Mosley never gets a clear answer when she asks proponents of data centers how closely they want to live near one. That’s because “everyone thinks it’s going to be in someone else’s backyard,” she said. Across...

TOPEKA — Winfield resident Lisa Spoon emailed every member of the Kansas House to start a conversation about loopholes in state law that allow people convicted of violent crimes to own a gun. Instead, she received a reply from Rep...

ERIE — A jury Wednesday convicted former Neosho County Attorney Linus Thuston of lying under oath two years ago when he offered an excuse for why he was meeting a woman alone at night in a discreet location after they...