Kansas Reflector

Gov. Laura Kelly speaks to reporters on Feb. 24, 2026, at the Statehouse in Topeka. On June 18, she denied the clemency request of a Kansas serial killer. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) By Baya Burgess Kansas Reflector TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly denied a Kansas serial killer clemency from his death sentence on Thursday. She denied the request of John Robinson, an 82-year-old Kansas prison inmate convicted of killing eight women from the mid 1980s until he was arrested in 2000. The...

TransAlta’s coal-fired power plant in Centralia, Wash., is among the facilities that received emergency orders from the U.S. Department of Energy blocking them from being retired. (Photo by the Washington Department of Ecology via Washington State Standard) By Alex Brown Stateline.org In an unprecedented use of federal authority, President Donald Trump’s administration has invoked emergency powers to force a series of retiring coal plants to stay open. Utilities, states and grid operators...

A selection of albums from onetime University of Kansas visitor Taylor Swift available for sale at Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence,...