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With Weeks Until Winter Wheat Harvest, Drought Plagues Kansas

By | May 23, 2023 |

While the drought has eased in much of the United States, it has gotten worse in Kansas, which expects the winter wheat harvest to decline 20%.

Kansas Lawmakers Unveil Bill to Incentivize Private Education with Public Funds

By | February 7, 2023 |

Kansas state Rep. Kristey Williams, a Republican from Augusta.

A new Kansas education bill would funnel money into unregulated, unaccredited private schools, with lawmakers saying the legislation would protect parental authority.

Gov. Laura Kelly Argues Kansans Deserve Progress on Tax, Health Care, K-12 Policy

By | January 25, 2023 |

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly enters to deliver the State of the State.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday encouraged the Republican-dominated Legislature to embrace a bipartisan approach to vexing political issues of taxation, health care and education.

Severe Drought Triggers Assistance in Nearly All of Kansas, Half of Missouri

By | October 17, 2022 |

A farmer works on his planter in a field.

Almost all of Kansas and nearly half of Missouri are in severe enough drought to activate a federal program meant to help ranchers who have lost grazing acres for their herds, triggering millions of dollars in assistance.