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The floundering Kansas Department of Labor is set to finally have permanent leadership, with Gov. Laura Kelly announcing she will tap Amber Shultz, a top official in Lawrence city government, to right the ship at an agency under fire amid a historic volume of unemployment claims. The move comes as tensions over the agency's performance have reached a boiling point, with KDOL spokesperson Gerald Grasso confirming "credible threats of acts of violence against the agency itself, staff members and our families." Top agency staff will pause on-camera broadcast interviews, Grasso said, after one ...

When Berkeley, Calif., in 2019 became the first city in the nation to ban natural gas infrastructure in new buildings, worried industry advocates sprang into action. States like Tennessee, Arizona and Oklahoma have since approved legislation that would essentially prohibit municipalities from banning natural gas. Kansas may be next. State lawmakers this past week have been hearing and discussing a bill, named the Energy Choice Act, that would do such. In short, local government cannot "impose any ... binding action that prohibits, discriminates against, restricts ... or has the effect ther...

The Manitoba government wants to ensure the Centennial Concert Hall survives for another 30 years....

When the doors of the province’s largest multipurpose performing arts hall reopen to the public, prepare to kick up your heels.

During the first week of the Kansas legislative session, the No. 1 priority for the Legislature is to extend the state's COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration before it expires Jan. 26. The urgency has been underscored by the speed lawmakers are moving with to pass two bills  ― for some, maybe a bit too fast. "I've not seen, and I don't think we've seen before, a bill that moved with such expediency," said Sen. David Haley, D-Kansas City. "I daresay it is abnormal and it lends a certain question as to how fairly it can be deliberated and considered. This is a very crucial issue in te...