Check out a couple investigative reports in this edition of Inside Kansas Politics. Statehouse bureau chief Tim Carpenter delves into emails that expose the tension between top officers at KHP, leading to their exit. And Carpenter explores the ramifications of 22K abandoned oil and gas wells across Kansas.
Personal conflict foreshadowing removal of Kansas Highway Patrol's two highest-ranking officers percolated through lively emails exchanged in January between the KHP superintendent and the spouse of the agency's top attorney alleging infidelity, coverup and threats.
Judith Wells brought her car to a slow crawl on a gravel road in Douglas County. She wasn't marveling at the beauty of nature or the toil of modern farmers. Nor was she drawn to the sprinkling of lovely rural homesteads. She was intent on consuming details of crude pooling at the base of a pump jack within shouting distance of Little Wakarusa Creek.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's agreement resolving a federal lawsuit will allow transgender Kansans to immediately apply to amend information on birth certificates to reflect the sex with which they associate, Gov. Laura Kelly said.
Paraguay's ambassador to the United States said during a visit to the Capitol that half a century of cultural and educational exchanges between Kansas and the South American nation support a lasting sense of mutual understanding.
Two agencies of the federal government signed an agreement outlining the construction-to-operation transition of the $1.2 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility under development in Manhattan, Kansas officials said.
A price-fixing lawsuit filed by a Wichita aviation company and other natural gas customers that climbed to the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in recovery by the state of Kansas of more than $950,000 from companies that manipulated prices in the early 2000s, officials said.
Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, doesn't expect Gov. Laura Kelly, a Topeka Democrat sworn into office in January, to be a two-term governor.
The Kansas congressional delegation recommended that World War I veteran and GI Bill champion Harry Colmery be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Gov. Laura Kelly selected two former members of the Kansas Senate to lead a task force being assembled by the governor to weigh options for changing the state's tax system.
The Kansas Board of Regents is weighing adjustments to qualified admission standards that would offer students access to state universities based on an applicant's overall high school grade-point average in addition to performance on the ACT exam.
The Kansas Board of Regents agreed to impose a one-year tuition freeze for undergraduate, resident students at all six state universities in hopes of strengthening political support for a proposed $50 million higher education budget increase in the 2020 legislative session.
Capitol Police Officer Scott Whitsell acknowledged he didn't have the authority to detain and ban three Kansas State University students in March for unfurling massive banners in a demonstration inside the Statehouse.
Two radiologic technologists who worked for months without licenses at the Hutchinson Clinic drew public censures from the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt said the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding constitutionality of preserving a 40-foot cross in a Maryland state park reinforced reasonable recognition of religious symbolism in the public square.
