Stephen Koranda
Managing Editor, Kansas News ServiceAs the Kansas News Service managing editor, I help our statewide team of reporters find the important issues and breaking news that impact people statewide. We refine our daily stories to illustrate the issues and events that affect the health, well-being and economic stability of the people of Kansas.
I spent almost 15 years reporting on government and state legislatures in Mississippi and Kansas before becoming the Kansas News Service daily news editor in 2021. I was on the air in Kansas for a dozen years as the Kansas Public Radio Statehouse reporter.
Now I'm using that experience to help Kansas News Service reporters develop and refine their stories as they cover topics that impact the people of Kansas.
I'm a native of the Midwest with a degree from the University of Iowa. Email me at skoranda@kcur.org.
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Polls show Sen. Roger Marshall in a close race with Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton. This is Trump’s second visit hoping to boost Marshall’s chances. -
Democrat Adam Hamilton sold a centrist message while Republican Sen. Roger Marshall urged Trump voters to show up to the polls to continue the president’s agenda. -
Democrat Adam Hamilton is vying to unseat Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall — and end nearly a century of Republican control of the state’s U.S. Senate offices. -
Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican, is running against state Sen. Cindy Holscher, an Overland Park Democrat, in the race to replace the term-limited Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly. -
At the State Fair debate, Democrat Cindy Holscher tied Republican Ty Masterson to former Gov. Sam Brownback, while Masterson compared Holscher to national Democrats. Both hope to court independent voters. -
Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have changed to electing state Supreme Court justices, in a win for groups that were concerned the change would impact abortion rights and school funding. -
Republicans voted to override the governor's veto and put the restrictions into state law. It will require people to use bathrooms in public places that align with their sex assigned at birth. -
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is asking for civility and compromise in the face of national political divides. She starts her final session in office with a Republican supermajority that can override her if it holds together. -
The Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade normally features dozens of human and horse participants from across the region. The Dec. 6 event is now canceled because of the virus outbreak affecting eight states. -
A plan in the Kansas Statehouse would add larger registration fees for electric and hybrid vehicles to help pay for roads. The law would require hybrid truck owners to pay significantly higher fees than owners of very similar hybrid SUVs.
