Tuesday is Election Day in Wichita, and voters will decide whether to support a USD 259 bond. This year, new polling hours will take effect. The Sedgwick County Election Office says polling places will open at 7 a.

SB 4 would require that voters return mail ballots by 7pm on Election Day. Under current Kansas law, mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received within three days are allowed to be counted. Should this bill pass, the three day grace period would be eliminated.

Wichita Public Schools’ bond election is almost here. Voters will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a $450 million bond proposal that would close four elementary schools and two administration centers, rebuild seven elementary and middle schools and convert two elementary schools to K-8 schools.

TOPEKA — The chair of the House Elections Committee told Republicans in a private Zoom meeting last year that he would prefer to eliminate advanced voting altogether and vowed to ram through legislation in the 2025 session to eliminate the three-day grace period for mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day.

Kansans are still more than a year away from choosing the next governor, but one woman has already announced that she wants the job.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach told attendees at the opening of the Shawnee County GOP election headquarters in downtown Topeka that the judicial selection process in Kansas should be reformed.

The House Elections Committee approved a package of campaign finance reforms arising from disputes about Kansas’ definition of a political action committee, coordination among PACs and candidates, and

Several bills passed the Kansas House of Representatives on Wednesday. Lawmakers in the House passed multiple bills on Feb. 19. The bills include raising electric and hybrid

The plea deals follow a 2023 investigation by The Star that revealed a series of connections between a Jackson County town and an influential marijuana businessman and developer.

The Urban League of Kansas hosted a forum on Thursday night, providing an opportunity for voters in the Wichita school district to hear from both sides on the proposed $450 million bond issue.

That should be the takeaway, anyway, from a proposed legislative resolution that would pave the way to amend the state constitution to allow for the direct election of Kansas Supreme Court justices.

My good friend Alan Townsend from Goodland just happened to be an elector in the 2024 election and the more we talked about his experience, the more I realized that