Statehouse

A Republican push to redraw Kansas’ Congressional district lines — possibly splitting Johnson County and making re-election of Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids more difficult — appears to be dying in the Kansas Legislature, according to an interview with House...

It looks like the Royals won’t be joining the Chiefs in moving to the Kansas side of the metro, at least not with the help of special state incentives designed to entice the professional sports teams to the state. Earlier...

By Dylan Lysen, Emily Younker  The Kansas City Chiefs are moving to Kansas. Under a deal struck by the team’s owners and Kansas political leaders, the Chiefs will build a new stadium in Wyandotte County. A site for the stadium was...

By Peggy Lowe, Sherman Smith and Steve Kraske A Kansas legislative committee will meet Monday to take one of the final steps toward luring the Kansas City Chiefs across the state line, floating bonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars...

By Dylan Lysen When the city of Gardner in eastern Kansas ordered Aspen Place apartments closed for unsafe living conditions last May, Candice Montgomery came home to a frantic neighborhood. She and other residents of the Gardner housing complex only had...

By Zane Irwin For several days, the official site of the Kansas Attorney General’s Office hosted links to artificial intelligence deepfake software, financial scams and adult sites. On Monday morning, the Kansas News Service accessed PDFs containing instructions for accessing the...

By Zane Irwin In September, Kansas Republican leaders said they wanted to join the national redistricting battle, initiated by President Trump, for control of the U.S. House. But even in a state that went for Trump by 16 percentage points in...

The idea of a new congressional map that would split Johnson County’s representation into two or more districts faded this week, but not completely. And while statehouse Republicans vow to keep pushing for redrawn boundaries when the next legislative...

Trump administration officials did not directly pressure Kansas state lawmakers to take action to redraw the state's Congressional district boundaries, says one local state senator who was present at the meeting last week. But there were a few oblique mentions...

Pressure over the push to do a sooner-than-usual redrawing of Kansas Congressional districts increased this week, as statehouse Republicans met for a White House conference in Washington, D.C., and local Democrats rallied against a plan that may split Johnson...

Signs that Kansas Republican leaders are serious about redrawing the state’s Congressional districts have been gathering in recent weeks, and panelists at a town hall Monday night in Lenexa warned such a move could dilute Johnson County’s influence in...

A mid-decade Congressional redistricting may be afoot in Kansas, and if state legislators go through with it, then Johnson County will be smack in the middle of the conversation. Press releases continued to fly off the desks of elected officials...