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July 12, 2023

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) was awarded nearly $15 million in federal funding, most of which will go toward bus storage improvements.

 


June 22, 2023

 

On Thursday morning, Rep. Sharice Davids cried from relief.

As she was walking on to the House floor to vote, she got a notification – the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold a law that keeps Native American children who are adopted with their tribes.


June 12, 2023

A bill introduced by House Democrats this week seeks to bolster mental health support for young LGBTQ people across the nation.

 


June 12, 2023

When Elsie Chen tried to renew her U.S. passport this spring, she thought seven weeks would be enough time for her application to make its way through the State Department bureaucracy before a much-anticipated trip to Taiwan in June to meet her boyfriend’s family.

 


June 12, 2023

Thirteen Johnson County students recently earned appointments to United States service academies.

 

It’s a prestigious honor that comes after a grueling application process that includes the requirement that students be nominated by a member of Congress.

 


June 12, 2023

OLATHE — Gov. Laura Kelly and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids said Friday that 120,000 Kansans allowed to remain in Medicaid due to a three-year suspension of eligibility reviews during the pandemic were in jeopardy of automatically losing coverage by not applying for renewal.

 


June 6, 2023

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded the Olathe city government a $17,987,495 grant to turn the railroad crossing on Woodland Road into a 119th street overpass.