TOPEKA — Rep. Henry Helgerson appealed to his fellow House members’ sense of duty Tuesday as he asserted no more than “a handful of you” had actually read the 337-page budget proposal they were about…

WICHITA — Tyler Nolte, a student at Nemaha Central/Elementary School, won the Sunflower State Spelling Bee Saturday. Nolte is in eighth grade. Nolte’s winning words were gadzookery and drumlin.  The competition was at Newman University…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature put an exclamation point on opposition to tobacco consumption by young adults Tuesday by sending to Gov. Laura Kelly a bill raising the minimum age for buying, possessing or consuming…

Motorists traveling south of Allen County could encounter construction on U.S. 169 as the state builds a passing lane in Neosho County.   The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) expects to construct passing lanes on…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court signaled Monday that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution, as an attorney for the state argued that a decisive statewide vote…

Natalie Bell was thinking about a career in art after college when a welding class and a delivery of four pizzas changed her career trajectory. “I was taking a delivery out to a construction site…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court is considering whether the state can restrict how doctors end second-trimester pregnancies or impose extra health and safety rules for abortion providers after a decisive statewide vote last…

COFFEYVILLE — An investigation continues into the discovery of more than 5,000 pills, described by investigators as fentanyl. The Parsons Sun said a person found a PVC pipe containing blue pills on March 17 at…

WILSON COUNTY — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office have identified the woman whose remains were discovered by hunters on March 16, in rural Wilson County. The woman has been…

A lengthy investigation led to the arrests of six people for suspected distribution of methamphetamine and other charges in eastern Kansas, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday. The arrests took place in Miami and…