When weather radios start sounding warnings in the Wichita, Kan., area this spring, the computerized voice nicknamed Chance Storms won’t just alert listeners to severe thunderstorms or tornado warnings. He’ll tell people how bad the storm will be and what …
The only thing more amazing than seeing a row of space-agey buildings rising from western Kansas plains is the fact that there’s anything there at all. It’s been nearly five years since an F5 tornado obliterated most of Greensburg. The …
A former Pittsburg, Kan., insurance agent will have to pay back more than $137,000 to victims of forgery and theft following a Kansas Insurance Department (KID)-led investigation involving non-payment of clients’ insurance premiums to companies. The insurance department reported that …
Kansas legislators are modifying a proposal from Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration to establish a fund to cover the state’s share of federally declared disasters. Brownback wants to use $12 million from taxes collected each year on insurance premiums to …
Facing pressure from large dairies and feedlots desperate for workers, Kansas Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman is seeking a federal waiver that would allow companies to hire illegal immigrants. Rodman has met several times with officials at the U.S. Department of …
Kansas farmers have claimed nearly $1 billion in insurance to offset crop losses caused by the lingering drought. The federal government says that breaks a Kansas record of $446.8 million for drought claims set in 2002, and more claims are …
Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing that Kansas create a special fund to help cover the costs of recovering from natural disasters. The measure is part of the budget Brownback has outlined for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012. He …
An Internet business operating out of Washington state has been told to cease misrepresenting itself as linked to any official Kansas health insurance exchange. Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger has ordered a halt to any Kansas references located on …
Kansas’ top insurance regulator has refused a proposed workers’ compensation rate increase and actually got the rate to drop slightly, the state insurance department announced. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger rebuffed a recommendation for a workers’ comp rate increase from the …
A nurse with a prior felony conviction for forging prescriptions dilutes morphine solutions for five Halstead, Kan., nursing home patients. Another nurse convicted of stealing drugs from patients at an Emporia home gets another job in Topeka, where she adds …
