Press Releases

Governor Laura Kelly today congratulated Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, on its announcement of the new Bell facility in Wichita.Bell said the Wichita location will support multiple programs and business areas, including engineering, supply...

Governor Laura Kelly today toured the Kansas State University Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) to learn more about its work fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, including through potential vaccine development, medicine discovery, and understanding how...

Governor Laura Kelly today announced that Urban Outfitters’ Inc. (URBN) new 880,000-square-foot omni-channel distribution center will be located on ancillary land at Kansas Speedway in Wyandotte County. The partnership between the State of Kansas and...

The following statement is from Governor Laura Kelly regarding the passage of Medicaid expansion in Missouri: “Last night, Missourians voted to join our neighbors in Colorado, Nebraska, and Oklahoma to become the 39th state to expand Medicaid. Every single...

TOPEKA—The State of Kansas starts Fiscal Year 2021 by surpassing its total tax-only collections by $484.6 million compared to July of last fiscal year. Total tax collections for the first month of the fiscal year were $980.8 million. That is $4.6 million,...

Lieutenant Governor Lynn Rogers this week was appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA), a nonpartisan nonprofit serving the nation’s lieutenant governors and seconds-in-command. “It’s an honor to...