All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2018 // Gov. Jeff Colyer issued a disaster declaration for three wildfires currently burning in central Kansas.State officials announced that Rice County officials have asked for help from the Kansas National Guard to fight the...
Mar 14 2018 // A $1.5 billion settlement was reached in a class-action lawsuit covering tens of thousands of farmers, grain-handling facilities and ethanol plants that sued Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its introduction of a...
Mar 6 2018 // Forecasters are warning of a high risk of wildfires after one blaze burned 10,000 hay bales in the southwest part of the state.Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer signed an emergency disaster declaration Sunday when the large bales...
Feb 20 2018 // A Kansas House committee has rejected a bill that was designed to prevent earthquakes that experts say are caused by oil and gas production wastewater disposal methods.The Sierra Club and several Kansas residents who say...
Feb 14 2018 // When legislation that would force consumers to buy more of a thing is opposed even by the companies who sell that thing, that’s a pretty good sign it’s a pretty bad idea. H.B. 2104, under consideration by the...
Feb 12 2018 // A woman paralyzed from the chest down in a 2014 southeast Kansas crash has won a $38.5 million verdict. The Joplin Globe reports that Cherokee County jurors returned the verdict after a five-day trial. Kara Hansen was just...
Feb 12 2018 // The owner of a Topeka-area auto body and restoration shop says it was “brutal” watching his business burn, knowing that six classic cars inside the building were destroyed.High Torque Racing Auto Body and Paint...
Feb 9 2018 // An international staffing company violated federal law when it allowed a manager at a Kansas City, Kan., worksite to repeatedly sexually harass female workers on a manufacturing line, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Feb 8 2018 // Federal safety regulators have proposed penalties totaling $194,006 against a Wichita, Kansas-based airline manufacturer for allegedly exposing its employees to a known carcinogenThe U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Jan 18 2018 // Authorities have determined the cause of a fire that caused more than $2 million in damage and losses at a truck maintenance facility in southwest Wichita, Kansas. Wichita fire Lt. Jose Ocadiz says employees were doing...
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry DaysJan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, Calif.California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA)Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.netThe 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance ConferenceJan 15-19...
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth.In...
Nov 14 2017 // The Kansas insurance commissioner’s chief deputy is interested in running for the top job himself next year.Assistant Insurance Commissioner Clark Shultz appointed a treasurer last month for a campaign for the...
Nov 14 2017 // Two teenagers whose firing from a Kansas pizza restaurant prompted a national discussion on pay inequality should receive back pay and the corporation that owned the restaurant must implement policies to ensure it follows...
Oct 27 2017 // Swiss Re, a reinsurance company, says it plans to move its headquarters and 400 jobs from Overland Park, Kansas, to downtown Kansas City.The move is expected in late 2018. President and CEO Eric Smith says the move will...
Oct 18 2017 // Police records show there has been an unprecedented spike in gun thefts in Kansas City, Missouri.The number of annual firearms thefts sharply increased between 2015 and 2016, according to police data obtained by the Kansas...
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates on average will drop in his state in 2018.The National Council on Compensations Insurance Inc. (NCCI) filing for the...
Oct 16 2017 // A contractor was fined $24,500 for safety violations after a worker died from a fall at a Richmond, Ind., factory.The Richmond Palladium-Item reports 23-year-old Jacob Bugg died June 27 after falling about 40 feet at a...
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties.Residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open pastures...
Oct 11 2017 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued his first pardon in almost seven years in office to a man convicted of felony theft as a college student in 1994.Brownback’s office announced the pardon for Mark Schmitt of...