TOPEKA — Biologists at Kansas State University are responding to a persistent 15-year decline in the state’s wild turkey population by launching a $1.8 million study of bird habitat, nesting, reproduction and survival to refine…

TOPEKA — Top priorities of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican Senate President Ty Masterson collide in January when the Kansas Legislature convenes for the 2024 session. Kelly left no doubt her central objective would…

TOPEKA — Seventy percent of the 300 Kansas business owners and executives surveyed said state and local taxes were too high and three-fourths agreed the state’s economy would expand once tax obligations were reduced, the…

TOPEKA — A Kansas businessman faces up to 25 years in prison after conspiring to sell and export aviation-related equipment to Russia, a scheme that allegedly began in 2020 and continued through Russia’s invasion of…

TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued a nonbinding legal opinion arguing state law required officials engaged in postelection audits to rely on original paper ballots instead of making use of optically scanned images…

TOPEKA — Stars, wheat, or sunflowers? How about none of the above? Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday announced the results of the public vote for a new license plate design. The winner: A design that…

TOPEKA — For two and half years, Davis Hammet has felt gaslighted by the state. Now, he said, a decision made Friday by the Kansas Supreme Court has vindicated his claims that a 2021 voting…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas law that makes it a felony to impersonate an elections official is vague enough that voting rights advocates can pursue a legal challenge, the state’s highest court ruled Friday,…

TOPEKA — GOP leadership in the Legislature rejected Gov. Laura Kelly’s latest proposal for Medicaid expansion, questioning whether federal regulators would allow a work requirement and calling for alternate reforms without offering their own plan.…

TOPEKA — A  Girard dress code policy that led to the forced cutting of an 8-year-old Native American boy’s hair has been rescinded.  Girard School District Board of Education members voted unanimously during a Thursday…