TOPEKA — House Republicans who oppose Medicaid expansion are pushing a one-time influx of cash for local hospitals as a way to save the state’s teetering rural health care system.  House Republican leadership said increasing…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House’s budget committee delivered bipartisan condemnation Monday of unusual $3 million payouts to Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Pittsburg State University intended to stabilize campus operating budgets during…

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) will install new light towers on the U.S. 169 and U.S. 54 interchange at Iola this week. The highway shoulders will be closed at the work zone with minimal…

TOPEKA — Around 2,600 Kansans are experiencing homelessness on any given day, one survey estimates. Lawmakers tasked with reducing this number will decide whether a $40 million fund is the best way to provide support…

TOPEKA — In Lawrence, plastic grocery bags are scarce after a citywide ban on the product took effect Friday. But on the state level, Republican lawmakers have vowed to prevent similar bans from going into…

The Wichita school board will vote Monday on a plan that would close six schools — Hadley and Jardine middle schools, and Clark, Cleaveland, Park and Payne elementaries. The move would require about 2,200 students…

TOPEKA — Secretary of State Scott Schwab said in-person advance voting would run from Wednesday through March 18 for Kansans interested in leaving their mark on the state’s Republican and Democratic presidential preference primaries. The…

TOPEKA — A committee in the Kansas House found bipartisan support for the idea of earmarking $450 million to lowering the unfunded liability of the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System. On Thursday, about 24 hours…

TOPEKA — More than 1,000 child care providers and stakeholders from all 105 Kansas counties urged lawmakers to channel more money into the state’s overwhelmed child care programs.  Child care data in the state suggests…

TOPEKA — Rep. Ford Carr feels unseen. The Wichita Democrat, who is one of eight Black lawmakers in the 165-member majority-white, majority-Republican Legislature, shared a letter on social media in which he vents frustration with…