State news
Latest
Kansas Court of Appeals rules CoreCivic can’t house ICE detainees without Leavenworth permit
CoreCivic can’t house immigration detainees before reaching an agreement with the city of Leavenworth on reopening its private prison, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday when it upheld a lower court’s decision.
Kansas Court of Appeals rules CoreCivic can’t house ICE detainees without Leavenworth permit
CoreCivic can’t house immigration detainees before reaching an agreement with the city of Leavenworth on reopening its private prison, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday when it upheld a lower court’s decision.
Want more state news?
You can read Associated Press coverage of Kansas stories and more online for free here.
KCUR also has paywall-free news from around the state at this link.
We post many, but not all, stories from the Kansas Reflector. Read more of their coverage here.
We also frequently post stories from the Kansas News Service. Read more of their coverage here.
TOP TAGS
Civil rights • Voter rights • Anti-trans legislation • Abortion • Immigration • Municipalities’ local control • Kansas State Board of Education
MORe KANSAS NEWS
Kansas moves ahead with $6.46 million grant program to bolster local food supply chains
The Kansas Department of Agriculture began accepting applications Monday under a $6.46 million grant program designed to improve local or regional food supply chain infrastructure.
After Kansas school district forces Native American boy to cut his hair, ACLU sends warning
Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that he grew it out to connect with his cultural heritage.
Kansas Democrats push property tax relief as alternative to GOP’s ‘political extortion’
As House Democrats unveiled a proposal to save homeowners $500 million on property taxes, House Minority Leader Vic Miller brayed at GOP leaders who play “stupid games” to try to secure income tax cuts that primarily favor the wealthiest Kansans.
‘Suspicious letter’ prompted evacuation of Kansas Secretary of State office
A “suspicious letter” was delivered to the state’s top election official’s office Tuesday, and the building was evacuated as a precaution.
Cybersecurity experts talk ‘security incident’ that shut down Kansas court system
It has been just more than a month since a “security incident” shut down online operations for most of the state’s courts. Kansas Reflector spoke to two local cybersecurity experts to better understand.
‘Why would I trust the government?’: Kansas conservatives speak against death penalty
No one has been executed in Kansas since 1965. Citing anti-abortion beliefs and love for Jesus Christ, several Kansas conservatives affirmed Saturday their commitment to making sure that status continues.
In Kansas school board races, voters reject candidates pushing culture war issues
Kansas communities rejected multiple far-right candidates for school boards in what a national education group has characterized as a U.S.-wide trend of demanding “real solutions” on the local level.
Blaise Mesa / Kansas News Service
In Kansas, abuse survivors seeking help from courts don’t get the legal assistance they need
Protection from abuse orders are a civil process, which means someone is not guaranteed a lawyer. Survivors who often have little legal expertise need to act as their own lawyer.
Kansas officials downplayed involvement in Marion raid. Here’s what they knew.
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody enlisted the support of local and state law enforcement officials in the days before he led raids on the local newspaper office, the publisher’s home and the home of a city councilwoman.
Kansas Supreme Court set to consider protections for voting rights
Kansas AG Kris Kobach made his case Friday that voting rights should not be given the same protection as other constitutional rights, hoping to sway the court over to his side in the latest twist of a long-lasting legal battle over 2021 election laws.
In Kansas school board races, test scores are a hot topic. What do they even tell us?
Conservative candidates for school board seats across Kansas have repeatedly asserted that scores on the state standardized test show schools are failing. But experts say that’s not necessarily true — and scores are just one part of the picture.
Kobach proposes fingerprinting, background checks of all Kansas public school employees
AG Kris Kobach has recommended passage of a law requiring all Kansas public school district employees undergo criminal background investigations, and he proposed comparable checks for contractors delivering Medicaid services to students.
EPA restores regular water flow in Kansas creek devastated by 2022 oil pipeline break
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the creek near Washington, Kansas, inundated with 588,000 gallons of oil when a 36-inch pipeline ruptured nearly a year ago is now flowing naturally.
Gov. Kelly’s Medicaid tour highlights need to deepen reach of Kansas’ mental health services
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly brought her campaign for Medicaid expansion Tuesday to a nonprofit behavioral health facility to raise awareness of the potential if the Legislature expanded eligibility for Medicaid to about 150,000 people.
‘Disproven and unsupportable’: Kansas judge blocks junk science abortion restrictions
A Kansas judge on Monday blocked a combination of long-standing and newly implemented abortion restrictions in the state in what abortion providers described as a “hard-fought” win against misinformation.
Don’t miss a beat … Click here to sign up for our email newsletters
Click here to learn more about our newsletters first
