State News

TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court issued a two-page order Tuesday releasing jurisdiction of the Gannon v. State school finance case after concluding the Legislature complied with mandates to resolve violations of the Kansas Constitution…

PAOLA — On a Monday afternoon, Rockers Pharmacy is hopping. The pharmacy sits on the edge of a large parking lot off Baptiste Drive, the main drag in Paola, Kansas. The building used to be…

TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach returned to the Statehouse to once again urge the Kansas Legislature to ban foreign land purchases in the state under the assumption countries such as China are attempting…

A bill in the Kansas Legislature is aimed at stopping people from using artificial intelligence to create false political attack ads. The bipartisan bill would prohibit political campaigns from using AI-generated media to create “false…

TOPEKA — Andover school superintendent Brett White said a Kansas House bill laying the groundwork for damaging assaults on accreditation of Kansas public schools was based on the false assumption districts intentionally operated in violation…

Anastasiya Miller moved 1,300 miles away to Tampa, Florida, from her hometown this past year. “I was excited,” Miller said. “I knew that I wanted to move out of Oklahoma. I had lived in Colorado…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Revenue reported state government tax receipts in December were 6.5% below projections amid unexpected softness in state sales tax receipts and individual and corporate income tax payments. The report…

A transgender woman is suing the Kansas Department of Corrections in federal court for creating a hostile work environment when she transitioned. Shelly Lamb, a former counselor and supervisor for the agency’s prison facility in…

TOPEKA — Four business attorneys and four labor lawyers presented the Kansas Legislature a compromise package of changes to the workers’ compensation system that would curb unwarranted claims and administrative costs while raising the cap…

Kansas is poised to expand an income tax credit for goods and services purchased from companies and nonprofits employing disabled workers, a year after a debate over how much the state should buck a national…