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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Republican-controlled Legislature is considering changes in the state's emergency laws and limits on the governor's power during pandemics and other emergencies. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas lawmakers topple governor’s newly issued mask order

By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press

GOP legislators disagree over Kansas unemployment upgrades

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Republicans in Kansas Senate oppose statewide mask policy

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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks to reporters, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, during a Statehouse news conference in Topeka, Kan. The Republican-controlled Legislature is pursuing multiple proposals to curb the Democratic governor's power. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

GOP leaders promise to thwart Kansas governor on mask policy

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Republican-controlled Legislature is considering changes in the state's emergency laws and limits on the governor's power during pandemics and other emergencies. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas governor signs rewrite of pandemic management laws

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas state Reps. Brandon Woodard, left, D-Lenexa, and Stephanie Clayton, right, D-Overland Park, confer during a House debate on a bill aimed at ensuring that all public school districts offer all students full-time, in-person classes, Monday, March 22, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The bill sets a March 31, 2021, deadline, and Democrats argue that such decisions should be left to local boards of education. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas county could end mask rule; schools pushed to reopen

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions from reporters following a tour of a childcare center, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Topeka, Kan. The Democratic governor calls a Republican proposal to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's school sports &quot;regressive.&quot; (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas bill on trans athletes advances amid misogyny charges

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

In this photo from Jan. 27, 2021, Dr. Lee Norman, head of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discusses the state's COVID-19 vaccine distribution during a news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Norman is telling skeptical state lawmakers that Kansas could distribute five times as many doses of vaccines as it is receiving from the federal government. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Governor: Kansas speeding up COVID shots to hit May target

By BY JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Republican-controlled Legislature is considering changes in the state's emergency laws and limits on the governor's power during pandemics and other emergencies. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

GOP lawmaker pushes plan to undo Kansas policy on vaccines

By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Republican-controlled Legislature is considering changes in the state's emergency laws and limits on the governor's power during pandemics and other emergencies. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas to vaccinate meat plant workers; rules upset counties

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions during a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Democratic governor is facing increasingly vocal criticism from the Republican-controlled Legislature over problems at the state Department of Labor, that include a flood of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas advances unemployment bill; staffing surge promised

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, speaks to fellow GOP senators during a caucus meeting, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Masterson sees some improvements in what he considered a disastrous state rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and is pushing a bill to require all K-12 schools to offer in-person classes to all students. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas lawmakers mull governor’s power, closing businesses

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Republicans, clockwise from the far left, Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop, R-Wichita; Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover; Chase Blasi, Masterson's operations chief, and Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, confer in the Kansas Senate during a debate on a bill rewriting the state's emergency management laws that includes a provision to prevent the governor from closing K-12 schools, Monday, March 1, 2021, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas lawmakers look to protect businesses, debate vaccines

By JOHN HANNA and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD - Associated Press

Kansas state Rep. Jesse Burris, R-Mulvane, makes a point during a debate on legislation rewriting state emergency management laws during a House Judiciary Committee, Monday, March 1, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Burris wants to ensure that a governor cannot impose restrictions on religious gatherings in future pandemics or keep abortion clinics operating if businesses are shut down. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas ponders open churches, abortion limits in pandemics

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Senate Commerce Committee Chair Rob Olson, R-Olathe, makes a point during a hearing on a bill that would make changes in the state's unemployment system, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The bill would set up a council to monitor upgrades of the state Department of Labor's unemployment system, and Olson is even suggesting removing control of the agency from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Audit: Bogus unemployment claims may have cost Kansas $600M

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions during a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Democratic governor is facing increasingly vocal criticism from the Republican-controlled Legislature over problems at the state Department of Labor, that include a flood of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas lawmakers hope for number on unemployment fraud cost

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Kelly urges FERC to investigate weather-related failures

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Kansas governor presents fix for vaccine data reporting woes

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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly discusses a proposal she outlined for cutting state income taxes during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The Democratic governor's proposal is an alternative to a Republican that she calls &quot;particularly irresponsible&quot; during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas governor offers rival to Republican tax-cutting plan

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

This screen shot shows Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, giving the Republican response to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's State of the State address, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2020, in the Senate chamber at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Masterson says Republicans &quot;always trust Kansans to know what is best for themselves and their families.&quot; (AP Photo/John Hanna)

GOP leaders: Kansas’ virus emergency might end March 31

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press