State News

There is a new type of farm spreading across the Kansas horizon. These farms do not have crops to cultivate, instead they harvest the wind and sunrays. Wind and solar farms have steadily increased across…

TOPEKA — A House bill would require school districts to transfer records of children in foster care within no more than two business days to provide stability in their education. House Bill 2320 would shift…

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly plans to attend a business meeting at the White House this week, which comes after President Donald Trump flip-flopped on invitations and Democrats promised to boycott. Kelly’s office said…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate approved tougher regulations on vapes Wednesday in an effort to crack down on unlicensed products and eliminate advertisements geared toward children. Major tobacco companies were behind the bill, which would…

TOPEKA — Melissa Sabin spoke officially on behalf of Little Lobbyists Kansas and personally in the name of her son, Logan, against a Kansas Senate bill aggressively expanding the state’s process of verifying eligibility for…

At the start of the year, a proposal to ban cell phones in K-12 Kansas schools seemed to enjoy the same kind of bipartisan support as legislation that brought the Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas…

TOPEKA — CoreCivic argued Tuesday for the right to begin holding prisoners in its closed Leavenworth facility, even as the company is working through a local permit process that could make the court case irrelevant.…

OLATHE  — As dozens of local officials and advocates recently took a peek at Maura Heft’s new three-bedroom home, she proudly showed off her spacious kitchen with dark wood cabinets and joyfully explained that the…

TOPEKA — White medical coats dotted the Capitol rotunda last week when hundreds of pharmacists advocated for industry pricing transparency that would help them stop filling a large percentage of prescriptions for free. Will Anderson,…

TOPEKA — A legislative proposal would stop artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT from developing emotional relationships with people online, encouraging suicide or murder, or offering mental health care. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said Senate…