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City hopes new initiative will help solve affordable housing problem in Wichita
With entire city-owned neighborhoods full of abandoned homes, some full of bullet holes, the city faced some scrutiny about the lack of affordable housing when it chose to sell them all off. But now it hopes to offset the affordable housing shortage.
KAKE NEWS INVESTIGATES: Background check backlog after cyberattack on Kansas courts
April marked six months since the Kansas court system first realized someone had hacked its computers. The fight to get back online after the cyberattack, and then caught up digitally, has left hundreds of Kansans fighting just to survive.
Getting property back from Kansas police is really hard, even for the innocent. That will change
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly signed the Kansas law that denies civil asset forfeiture in cases of lower level crimes like simple possession of drugs. It also forces police to return seized property faster.