A new state-owned casino in the Wichita area came a step closer to reality as the Kansas Lottery Commission approved both proposals to move forward in the application process.

August revenues increased on higher sales taxes, but forecasters see no sign yet that recovery has started.

Roughly 20,000 applications for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program are over 45 days old, but the KHPA is trying to get them processed in a faster, if less accurate manner.

Job markets are last to recover from loss of 46,000 jobs in '09; 10 percent employment expansion seen by 2018>

The Kansas Attorney General joined nine other states in filing a brief to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a case where other states sued electrical companies because of their greenhouse gas emissions.

Gov. Mark Parkinson appointed 15 members to the new Kansas Health Information Exchange, which will supervise the switch of medical records formats in Kansas, which will be all electronic by 2014.

Sen. Steve Abrams wants to completely transform the way students take classes in Kansas, putting more emphasis on a career track and technical education, rather than a uniform class load for all students.

The 60,000 tests will be distributed upon district request for 8th and 10th graders. The exams will help identify weak subject areas and give practice for taking college entrance exams.

Choices are tentatively projected to cost either $157 million or $484 million, but studies are underway to find more accurate numbers.

Transportation department using $25 million of long term project money to revive program stopped in 2009 when revenues dropped.