TOPEKA, Kansas, April 2 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on April 1, 2025: * * * 25-ALLX-369-ASM Docket Type: ASM - Assessment Docket Description: Regulation of Public Utilities and Common Carriers Date Filed: 04/01/2025 * * * 25-ALLB-368-ASM Docket Type: ASM - Assessment Docket Description: Assessment of Public Utilities and Common Carriers for CURB Date Filed: 04/01/2025 * * * 25-TRAM-5066-TRA Docket Type: TRA - Transportation Order Docket Desc  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 31 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Kelly Signs Bipartisan Bill Increasing Dollars for Conservation Districts Governor Laura Kelly has signed Senate Bill 36, which increases the cap on the amount of money conservation districts can receive from the division of conservation and increases the amount of matching dollars the state can provide conservation districts.  "Addressing our state's diverse water quality and quantity   more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 31 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Kelly Vetoes Two Bills, Allows Three to Become Law Without Signature Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed Senate Bill 5 and Senate Bill 14. Governor Kelly also allowed House Bill 2106, House Bill 2027, and Senate Bill 105 to become law without her signature.  The following veto message is from Governor Kelly regarding her veto of Senate Bill 5: "Restricting federal funds for elections and e  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 1 -- The Kansas Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on March 31, 2025: * * * New Commissioners Elected to Kansas Commodity Commissions The Kansas Department of Agriculture has announced the results of elections for the state's five grain commodity commissions -- corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat. These elections took place in Districts VII, VIII, and IX in the eastern region of the state. Kansas Corn Commission District VII: G  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 2 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Evolution of distinctively human cognition explored in new book LAWRENCE -- What separates us from all the other living things on this planet? The answer is cognition ... supposedly. But what human cognition is (and isn't) has never been explicitly, universally defined. "For it to be distinctively human cognition, it will have to be the kind of thing only humans show -- though not all humans need to show   more