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While it was a mixed bag for Republicans elsewhere on Election Night, the GOP easily offered up winners in a pair of Allen County Commission races. Incumbent Jerry Daniels, representing District 1, cruised to victory…

Voters flocked to the polls this morning to cast their ballot and vote in today’s General Election. Gas Community Center was averaging about a voter each minute, with about 35 voters in the first 35…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas county clerk who moved the only polling site in the historic Wild West town of Dodge City to a facility outside the city limits more than a mile from…

Like Napoleon, Hillary Clinton’s long career ended in Waterloo. Only in her case, it was Waterloo, Iowa. She trailed Barack Obama’s 2012 totals by 9 percent in Waterloo’s Black Hawk County, helping President Trump win…

Steven Henderson hadn’t given much thought to throwing his hat in the ring and seek a seat on the Allen County Commission. At 22, and in town barely long enough to meet his neighbors, Henderson…

It’s not a stretch to say the most important vote for Iolans on Election Day may have nothing to do with who becomes the state’s next governor, our next representative in Congress or who gets…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Laura Kelly accused Republican Kris Kobach of not being truthful when he claimed during a televised debate Tuesday that Kansas can save $377 million a year by cutting off benefits…

With a little more than a month before the Nov. 6 elections, now is a good time to plan how you’ll vote. Maybe you’re a traditionalist, someone who likes to wade into the polling booth…

Democratic congressional candidate Paul Davis hosted a round-table discussion with a dozen area health care professionals Thursday in Pittsburg. Davis, who is locked in a neck and neck contest with political rookie Steve Watkins (R-Topeka)…

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Paul Davis says he’s frustrated, but he doesn’t really show it. Sitting at a wooden desk in his campaign office in downtown Lawrence, the bespectacled Democrat matter-of-factly states that he’s irked by…