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Kansas Punching Above Its Weight – Lower Funding, Higher Student Outcomes

Tuesday, July 11

TOPEKA, Kan. (KASB.org) - KASB has posted a new report on K-12 education funding and outcomes in Kansas and other states. Kansas continues to lag behind the U.S. average in per-pupil funding. Despite increasing state aid under the first four...

Shawnee County Judge Suspends Kansas Policy Allowing Gender Changes to Driver’s Licenses

Tuesday, July 11

By Tim Carpenter,

KDWP to Conduct Five-Year Review of State Listed Species

Monday, July 10

PRATT, Kan. (KSOutdoors.com) – The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) is conducting a five-year review of the lists of Kansas species that are endangered, threatened or Species In Need of Conservation (SINC). Endangered is the most imperiled category of the three, and species...

Audit Calls for More Training, Guidance for County Election Workers

Monday, July 10

TOPEKA, Kan. (KNS) – A new Kansas audit calls for more training and guidance for county election workers. The audit reviewed the election policies and practices of 15 counties. These included the purchase of certified election equipment, and securing ballots when they are transferred...

KCC Begins Public Hearings on Evergy Rate Increase Request

Monday, July 10

TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) will begin public hearings this week to give Evergy customers an opportunity to learn more about the...

KBI Releases 2022 Statewide Crime Statistics

Monday, July 10

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) has released the

Kansas 4-H Names State Project Award Winners

Friday, July 7

By Maria Childs, K-State Research and Extension MANHATTAN, Kan. – The

AAA: Gas Prices Wobble, But They Don’t Fall Down

Friday, July 7

By Andrew Gross & Devin Gladden WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 6, 2023)—Pump prices barely budged over the past week, despite the expected demand surge due to the July 4th holiday. AAA predicted that more than 43 million people would hit the road to celebrate the nation’s...

GHB Test Strips Now Legal for Purchase in Kansas

Friday, July 7

TOPEKA, Kan. (KNS) – It is now legal to buy test strips in Kansas that can test whether a drink has been spiked with a date rape drug. The Kansas News Service reports that GHB test strips became legal on July 1.The test strips...

Kansas Attorney General Sues to Prevent Transgender People from Changing Driver’s Licenses

Friday, July 7

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver's licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his interpretation of a new law.Attorney General Kris Kobach went to a...

Texas Selected Atop Big 12 Football Media Preseason Poll

Thursday, July 6

IRVING, Tex. - For the first time since the Conference went to a divisionless format, Texas was picked atop the Conference’s 2023 preseason poll as voted on by media representatives. The Longhorns were slotted fourth in last year’s preseason poll behind Baylor, Oklahoma and...

Chase by Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ends in Death of Shooting Suspect

Thursday, July 6

EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman who was fatally injured in a crash while being chased by the Kansas Highway Patrol on Wednesday had just fled the scene of a shooting. The Butler County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to the...