The first thing you need to know about President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops in California is that this moment was always coming.  Always.  Back in 2023, long before Trump was elected…

TOPEKA — Merck Animal Health will build an $895 million capital expansion project and add 200 jobs at its De Soto manufacturing facility, Gov. Laura Kelly and the company announced Thursday. Merck will invest $860…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly sent letters to the five Republicans and one Democrat in the Kansas congressional delegation urging the federal lawmakers to resist pressure to vote for Medicaid cuts that would deny health…

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill Friday she feared would funnel more public money to private educational institutions. Senate Bill 24 broadened the scope of the Kansas Promise Scholarship, which offers financial…

TOPEKA — Surrounded by the shouts and chatter of children playing, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday signed legislation consolidating the state’s early childhood services under one department and supporting creation of more child care…

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — Gov. Laura Kelly visited southwest Kansas Tuesday amid a measles outbreak to urge people in the region to vaccinate themselves and their children. State health officials have been racing to keep…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday a request was submitted to the U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to reinstate more than $22 million in federal funding appropriated to Kansas to help students who…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve about had it with the “leadership” at both our national and state levels. I was a Republican until George W. Bush lied and got us into an ill-conceived…

TOPEKA — Substantive income and sales tax reform in Kansas continued during March to carve new channels in the state revenue stream, officials said. Adjustments to state retail sales tax policy by ending application of…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill that would roll over the previous year’s state budget if the Legislature failed to pass one, pointing out that every legislative body since the state’s…