TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s frustration with inability of Congress to advance a new coronavirus relief package culminated Monday in signing of an executive order prohibiting mortgage foreclosures as well as residential or commercial evictions in Kansas due to financial hardship created by the pandemic.She said her order was identical to a statewide mandate that expired and that she would renew the measure in two weeks if the federal government didn’t take action on a national scale. The Kelly administration is evaluating options for aiding landlords who have grappled for months with these...…TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s frustration with inability of Congress to advance a new coronavirus relief package culminated Monday in signing of an executive order prohibiting mortgage foreclosures as well as residential or commercial evictions in Kansas due to financial hardship created by the pandemic.She said her order was identical to a statewide mandate that expired and that she would renew the measure in two weeks if the federal government didn’t take action on a national scale. The Kelly administration is evaluating options for aiding landlords who have grappled for months with these...WW…

12:32News StoryDemocrat Aaron Coleman, of Kansas City, Kan., was elected to the Kansas House in November. His future colleagues and others have called for him to resign or be removed from office due to allegations of his violence against women. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)LAWRENCE — Kansas House Democratic candidate Aaron Coleman on Friday urged Republican candidates not to wear a mask during the pandemic in anticipation they would be stricken by COVID-19 and do poorly in the November general elections.Coleman, a 19-year-old candidate for a Wyandotte County seat in the Legislature and a...…12:32News StoryDemocrat Aaron Coleman, of Kansas City, Kan., was elected to the Kansas House in November. His future colleagues and others have called for him to resign or be removed from office due to allegations of his violence against women. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)LAWRENCE — Kansas House Democratic candidate Aaron Coleman on Friday urged Republican candidates not to wear a mask during the pandemic in anticipation they would be stricken by COVID-19 and do poorly in the November general elections.Coleman, a 19-year-old candidate for a Wyandotte County seat in the Legislature and a...WW…

14:54News StoryGov. Laura Kelly and Jurgen Richt, a Kansas State University professor, on Thursday discuss COVID-19 research being conducted at the university’s Biosecurity Research Institute in Manhattan. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)MANHATTAN — Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday stepped into the sophisticated Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University to learn more about testing of nasty pathogens in plants and animals capable of threatening agriculture and public health.In her first trip to the institute since it was under construction a dozen years ago, the governor also was...…14:54News StoryGov. Laura Kelly and Jurgen Richt, a Kansas State University professor, on Thursday discuss COVID-19 research being conducted at the university’s Biosecurity Research Institute in Manhattan. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)MANHATTAN — Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday stepped into the sophisticated Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University to learn more about testing of nasty pathogens in plants and animals capable of threatening agriculture and public health.In her first trip to the institute since it was under construction a dozen years ago, the governor also was...WW…