Kansas

The Democratic pastor turning ruby-red Kansas into a Senate battleground

Kansas hasn't elected a Democratic senator in over 90 years, but new polling shows a dead-heat race between Republican incumbent Roger Marshall and Democrat Re…

Kansas enters the chat as Senate map tilts further into red territory

The Senate GOP's top PAC is diving into Kansas, a sign that the deep-red state is in play amid a worsening political environment for Republicans.

Democrats expand battleground for House, reaching into bloodred districts

The additions include Kansas's 2nd, Michigan's 1st, North Carolina's 13th, New Jersey's 2nd, Oklahoma's 5th, Texas's 9th, Virginia's 6th and Washington's 5th.

Adam Hamilton on faith, Trump and the fight for Kansas

Loyal dog fetches police to help owner who fell at Kansas home

Bodycam footage shows a Leawood police officer following the leashed dog down the street to a garage where its owner had been on the floor for hours.

Contractor Selected for Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Expansion in Kansas City

A planned $90-million expansion of the museum also includes construction of a boutique hotel.

ICE puts vulnerable Republicans in a bind weeks before midterms

Immigration enforcement in Kansas, Texas, Florida and beyond is forcing battleground Republicans to answer for the fallout.

Meatpacking groups say ICE arrests could lead to higher prices and revenue loss

Meatpacking industry groups are raising concerns about recent immigration operations in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma

Missouri mom who put newborn in oven instead of crib learns fate as murder charge dropped

Mariah Thomas told Kansas City police she mistook the oven for a crib. The infant was found with severe burns across her body in February 2024.

Kansas judge convicts driver in death of teacher whose husband was killed months prior

Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teac…

Girl orphaned by Super Bowl reporter's drugging and a deadly Kansas crash is 'extreme victim', granddad says

Parents of Eleanor, 3, both died within a year. Her dad's killer was just convicted. Now a man faces trial in her mother's car crash death. Brian Hinck followe…

Mortenson JV scores $1.9B Kansas City MLB ballpark

Mortenson and McCownGordon Construction will serve as construction manager at risk on the 34,000-seat venue. JE Dunn will work on the surrounding neighborhood…

Is Kansas really in play for Democrats? Republicans are acting like it.

JD Vance is campaigning in the state on Monday as Sen. Roger Marshall (R) faces a tougher-than-expected challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton.

JD Vance Makes Campaign Stop In Deep-Red State Democrats Desperately Want

Vice President JD Vance is campaigning in Kansas - a state where Republicans have won every U.S. Senate election since 1932 - as Democrats clamor to turn one o…

JV Team Chosen for Kansas City Royals $3B Ballpark and Mixed-Use District

What firms have been chosen to lead construction of the Kansas City Royals' new ballpark and mixed-use district?

Kansas workers push back against Trump's call to ban Canadian jet maker

Several Wichita-based Bombardier employees said the post felt to them as though the president was turning his back on American workers.

Missouri coach blasts Kansas over slavery references after Border War win

Tigers beat Kansas 38-21 in historic Border WarRivalry has roots in pre-Civil War slavery conflict. Drinkwitz says buildup left him 'embarrassed'The latest edi…

Sen. Roger Marshall's challenger in Kansas criticizes him for suing patients

Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor, is facing an uphill battle against Marshall. No Democrat has won a Senate race in the state since 1932.

Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He's a Senator.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

Kansas City Fed's Schmid says inflation 'stubborn' and 'sticky,' policy rate not restrictive

The policymaker stopped just short of calling for an interest rate hike.

Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the US Senate since 1932. Will that change in November?

Adam Hamilton, a liberal megachurch pastor, is challenging incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall in this year's midterm election. In one of the first ads…

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94

Kassebaum Baker became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor's daughter who…

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former U.S. senator from Kansas, dies at 94

Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a spouse into office.

This Kansas City regional bank is playing with the big boys. JPMorgan sees big gains ahead

UMB Financial is expanding its services, making it more like a big bank and offering it more avenues to grow, according to JPMorgan.

Kansas father kills his four children and their mother before shooting himself

Incident marks second familicide in midwest in two weeks, with the children who died ranging in age from three to nineA father killed his four young children a…

4-year-old dies after suffering electrical shock from clothes dryer inside Kansas home

Authorities say the 4-year-old suffered an apparent electrical shock from a 220v clothes dryer while playing inside a southeastern Kansas home.

Kansas City Chiefs drop GEHA Field from stadium, return to simply Arrowhead Stadium

The Kansas City Chiefs' home will be once again be known simply as Arrowhead Stadium

Takeaways from a big primary night in Michigan, Kansas, Missouri and more

The Michigan Senate race remained too close to call, but Democratic ideological battles ended in mixed results in House primaries.

Kansas' data center boom is shaking up the governor's race

Republican and Democratic rivals are attacking each other over their positions on data center development in the final stretch of the primary.

The next abortion battle is over Kansas's highest court

Voters will decide whether to replace a nearly 70-year-old appointment system with direct elections that could reshape the state Supreme Court for decades.