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The Democrat running to replace Kris Kobach as Kansas secretary of state is trying to get voters to repudiate the conservative Republican’s political legacy of tough voter-identification laws, which Kobach often touts while campaigning for governor. Brian McClendon, a former ...

Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder and his Democratic challenger are having a hard time keeping their political footing on immigration issues, complicating their efforts to win a competitive swing House district in Kansas that President Donald Trump narrowly lost. Yoder is ...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach unsuccessfully sought a governor’s pardon for a corporate campaign donor’s vice president whose crime, police said, involved threatening a cab driver by putting a gun to his head. Kobach, a Republican and candidate for ...

Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens courted controversy and touched off political disputes even before acknowledging an extramarital affair that led to his indictment in February on a felony invasion-of-privacy charge and a blistering report from a state House investigatory committee ...

A water park company co-owner Kansas authorities accuse of deciding on the spur of the moment to build the world’s tallest waterslide and rushing its construction without proper engineering advice, was ordered held in a Texas jail without bond Tuesday ...

Prisons in Kansas face a crisis in hiring staff because of poor pay. A former governor called a state hospital for the mentally ill “a pit.” Highway projects are delayed because state funding keeps getting diverted to other priorities. An ...

After Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination this summer to an ambassador’s post, the fellow Republican destined to succeed him as governor ducked policy questions by declaring, “There’s one governor at a time.” Four months later, some people in Kansas think ...

If you thought Kansas emerged from its long budget crisis to reject deep-red politics and move back toward the center, think again. A year ago, many voters concluded that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s experiment in cutting income taxes had ended ...

When Shannon Reischman takes in the sweeping view from the big hill behind her in-laws’ farmhouse outside the northeastern Kansas town of Tonganoxie, she sees a rural oasis that’s an easy commute to Kansas City-area jobs. Tyson Foods Inc. looked ...

Religious objections measures in Arkansas and Indiana that prompted national criticism are similar to a law Kansas quietly enacted two years ago with the state's leading gay-rights group officially neutral.

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, the Republican nominee for Kansas governor, holds up a copy of his “Road Map for Kansas” as Democratic candidate and state Sen. Tom Holland criticizes him during his closing statement in a Sept. 11 debate at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kan.