Federal Government

Updated Friday, Nov. 7 A federal judge ruled on Thursday the federal government must fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for November. In a press release Friday afternoon, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly confirmed that the Kansas Department for Children and...

Olathe Head Start and Growing Futures in Overland Park aren’t facing the specter of funding running dry as the federal government shutdown threatens other low-income early childhood education programs in the U.S. Still, the local Head Start programs and the...

This story has been updated to include comments from Lenexa Police.  Local immigration rights activists say four or five workers were arrested and taken away from a Lenexa restaurant on Wednesday as part of a raid carried out by agents...

By Tim Carpenter Members of the Kansas congressional delegation praised U.S. military forces following the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, but disagreed as to whether President Donald Trump threatened to draw the United States in a lengthy conflict or exercised...

If a Midwestern nonprofit for heritage preservation loses all of its federal funding and shuts down, then the historically significant sites in Johnson County that it supports would be at risk of losing resources like grant support and promotions. That's...

Former Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer of Johnson County on Wednesday headlined an event arranged by the Kansas First political action committee marking President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office since being re-inaugurated in January. About 150 people gathered at...

As the Republican-controlled Congress focuses on possible cuts to Medicaid, Johnson County residents and health care providers across Kansas worry about how deep such cuts may go. Earlier this month, the GOP-led House of Representatives and Senate each passed budget...

Federal funding for a program that helps small and mid-size manufacturers in Kansas and several other states will return, at least temporarily. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Sharice David's office announced that funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, or MEP,...

By Mary Sanchez Evenezer Cortez Martinez is back on U.S. soil, landing in Kansas City Tuesday afternoon after being deported. The DACA recipient and Kansas father of three feared that he wouldn’t be able to return from Mexico, a country he...

Johnson County area economists and financial advisers are counseling patience and a longer-term outlook amid this week's stock market volatility that followed President Donald Trump's announcement of global tariffs. Last Wednesday, the president unveiled plans to impose a baseline 10%...

By Mary Sanchez Evenezer Cortez Martinez wanted to pay respects to a beloved grandfather who died last fall. He ended up deported, sent back to Mexico, a country the 39-year-old Kansas husband and father left at the age of 4. “Everything was...

Roughly 100 protesters had a clear message for Sen. Jerry Moran on Thursday morning: ”Do your job,” they chanted. The group lined the sidewalks leading into the K-State Olathe campus ahead of the Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City’s March...