2025 in Kansas
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Incumbents
State government
- Governor: Laura Kelly (D)
Events
Ongoing: 2024–2025 Kansas tuberculosis outbreak[1]
- January 5 – Kansas is affected by the January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard.
- March 13 – 2025 Southwest United States measles outbreak: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirms the state's first measles case of 2025.[2]
- July 21 – A woman is killed by flash floods in Overland Park.[3]
- October 14 – The Kansas Young Republicans organization is disbanded following a Politico report revealing that the chair and vice chair were in a group chat containing racist, antisemitic, and homophobic messages.[4]
- November 4
- 2025 Kansas City, Kansas mayoral election: Christal Watson wins election to become mayor of Kansas City.[5]
- 2025 Topeka mayoral election: City Councilmember Spencer Duncan wins election to become mayor of Topeka.[6]
- November 10 – The Marion County government agrees to pay $3 million to the Marion County Record, a local newspaper whose offices were raided by sheriff's deputies in 2023.[7]
- November 15 – Three Osage County Sheriff's deputies and a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper are injured in a shoot-out with a man at a rural property near Carbondale. The man's grandfather is also injured. The suspect is killed by police.[8]
- December 22 – The Kansas City Chiefs announce they will leave Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri for a new stadium in the state of Kansas by 2031.[9]
