TOPEKA — The Kansas House wrestled with details but didn’t amend Wednesday an unemployment insurance bill potentially penalizing applicants who missed job interviews and suspending state benefits in extraordinary circumstances when federal aid surpassed the…

TOPEKA — An audit instigated because of Republican suspicion over state public universities’ equity programs found the programs used $9 million in state dollars during the 2022-2023 school year. On Wednesday, Heidi Zimmerman, principal auditor…

TOPEKA — Members of the Kansas Senate thought it was such a super idea to issue a special license plate for the Kansas City Chiefs, they kept piling on. Before the dust settled Wednesday on…

TOPEKA — Several resolutions profess Kansas lawmakers’ support of a free press in the wake of the Marion County Record raid and lawmakers’ own attempts to strip public television funding. None of the resolutions are…

TOPEKA — The Republican-led Kansas House failed Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a tax reform bill anchored by implementation of a single, flat state income tax rate of 5.25% in addition…

TOPEKA — The state’s only women’s prison could have a nursery center for mothers who give birth while incarcerated, if a proposed plan catches on. The pilot plan would establish a correctional center nursery on…

Utilities would be prohibited from taking private land using eminent domain to build solar farms under legislation Kansas lawmakers weighed Monday. Eminent domain authority allows governments or utility companies to take private property for public…

TOPEKA – The Kansas Department for Children and Families has announced new contracts for foster care services in the state. St. Francis Ministries, a faith-based nonprofit accused of financial mismanagement, will not have its contract…

TOPEKA — Voting rights groups want to be able to register voters again without the threat of jail time, one attorney argues. Kansas Supreme Court Justices have to decide whether this argument has merit. On…

A Kansas House committee appears to be following through on a lawmaker’s threat to defund the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks because the agency is considering a ban on baiting deer with piles of…