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TOPEKA — Wichita Democratic Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau said the bill overhauling Kansas law on unpaid traffic fines signed by the governor would reduce suspension of driving privileges and allow people to drive to work on…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said there was “absolutely no way” to avoid vetoing the $2.3 billion tax reduction bill approved with bipartisan majorities in the Kansas Legislature, arguing the cumulative year-to-year result of a…

Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a request to issue $420 million in bonds for capital projects in Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, sending district officials back to the drawing board on a plan to address…

TOPEKA — School districts with shrinking student populations have been addressed with a bill setting out state aid guidelines for the next year. Rep. Kristey Williams, an Augusta Republican, estimated the state has 11 school…

TOPEKA — House Speaker Dan Hawkins on Monday urged Gov. Laura Kelly to sign bipartisan tax relief rather than summon lawmakers back to Topeka for a special session that would cost $84,000 per day. The…

TOPEKA — The drama of Kansas legislators working to disrupt diversity, equity and inclusion policies at public universities and colleges had been playing for more than a year before Sarah Green and Brandon Woodard personalized…

TOPEKA —About 150,000 people who had some form of interaction with Kansas courts might have had their data breached in the October cyberattack that took the judicial system offline for weeks. The Office of Judicial…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission invited public comment from nearly 650,000 customers of Kansas Gas Service on the request for an overall revenue increase of $93.1 million that would translate into an average increase…

Farmers in the Midwest and Great Plains are planting much less hemp than they were two years ago, according to the most recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But to David Lakeman —…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly could be headed toward a court fight with the Republican-controlled Legislature over a newly enacted measure that says Kansas will help Texas in its dispute with the…