Kansas

Laura Kelly is promoting the plan as an economic stimulus.

Richard G. Bartow and his son Richard T. Bartow joined the office this week and will focus on K-12 education.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's $7.8 billion budget calls for an extension of pension obligations while paying down other debt and boosting reserves.

China's recently announced suspension of U.S. agricultural imports escalated trade-related risks to U.S. agriculture, said Fitch Ratings.

Refundings rebounded in the first half of 2019, but total bond volume across the Southwest fell to a six-year low.

Although first-term Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly failed to win expansion of Medicaid coverag, she praised GOP lawmakers for beginning to clean up "a mess."

Shawnee County, Kansas, commissioners on Monday morning approved by a 3-0 vote a resolution to issue about $13 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds for a shopping development in west Topeka.

While JPMorgan Chase will see a public-private prison in Kansas through to completion, private financing as an alternative to municipal bonds is on the way out.

The number of states aiding school districts with pension costs is expected to grow as pension burdens escalate.

When they met Monday, the Leavenworth, Kansas, Board of Education were briefed on plans for capital projects that will be funded largely with money from a bond issue that was approved last year.