KanCare, Kansas’ Medicaid program, will cover doula services for its pregnant beneficiaries beginning July 1. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a release that the policy change aims to improve maternal health…

TOPEKA — A committee of the Kansas Legislature opened an inquiry into the Kelly administration’s replacement of one of three Medicaid contractors with a Blue Cross and Blue Shield entity linked to the disgraced company…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri on Monday together blocked much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for…

Jane Breckinridge is a fifth-generation farmer but is the first in her family to raise butterflies. “Some people have hogs as livestock or they have goats,” she said. “I’m just very, very lucky because my…

Drivers on the Kansas Turnpike will soon no longer need to pull over to pay their toll. Starting July 1, the toll highway will be cashless, allowing drivers to fly right through on ramps and…

Kansas lawmakers passed major tax cuts on Tuesday that will reduce income taxes and ultimately cost the state an estimated nearly $2 billion over the next five years. The bill would combine the state’s three…

TOPEKA — The Kansas City Royals and Chiefs could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to move from Missouri and build new stadiums across the state line under legislation passed Tuesday…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate deflected a bipartisan effort to amend Tuesday a substantial property and income tax reduction bill negotiated by Gov. Laura Kelly and top Republican leaders in the Legislature. In opening hours…

TOPEKA — Legislation to be presented Monday to Kansas lawmakers to lure the Kansas City Royals or Kansas City Chiefs across the state line would allow issuance of bonds to cover 75% of stadium projects…

TOPEKA — Another legislative session ended without action on Kansas’ homelessness problem, even as the city outside the statehouse walls reported a spike in rates of unhoused people. Homelessness reform advocates urge more awareness and…