Politics

District 35, in Kansas City, Kansas, hasn’t sent a Republican to the statehouse for more than 30 years. But GOP candidate Sam Stillwell thinks voters in the district may have more in common with his party than they think.

Stakes are high for the Kansas 3rd Congressional District. In the upcoming election, the party of the winner could control the House of Representatives for the next two years.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree denied a request by six Kansans to intervene in the upcoming election. Crabtree said the plaintiffs, who claimed the devices were vulnerable to Chinese communists, were “long on suspicion, contingency and hypothesis, but short on facts.”

A Kansas law passed in 2021 made it illegal for one person to deliver more than 10 advance voting ballots on behalf of other voters, and puts additional restrictions on handling and verifying advanced ballots.

Voters in Sedgwick County’s 5th District will soon decide on a county commissioner for the next four years.

Republican Derek Schmidt says a new law is needed to make sports reserved for girls and women fair. But Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, who twice vetoed such a bill, says it's not a real issue.

The lawsuit filed by the Republican attorneys general of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and South Carolina argues Congress never approved massive student loan cancellation. It asserts that the Biden administration and the U.S. Education Department aim to misuse emergency authority.

Poll shows the economy is voters' top issue in the campaign followed by abortion rights.

The Democratic representative for the Kansas 3rd District is campaigning in a redrawn district which now favors Republicans. She believes inflation and abortion are the keys issues for voters.

The GOP candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives is running in a newly redrawn district that now favors her party. She says inflation and border security are two of her top issues.