TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Doctors accused of not providing enough care to infants delivered alive during certain kinds of abortion procedures in Kansas could face lawsuits and criminal charges under a bill that won final…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed through by Republican…

More than 54,000 lead service pipes carry drinking water to Kansas families, according to a new estimate from the Environmental Protection Agency. New lead water pipes have been banned for more than 30 years. But…

TOPEKA — A new form of the long-debated Kansas voucher program for private schools would fund the program with federal COVID-19 dollars and provide $1,000 for public school students. Sen. Molly Baumgardner, a Louisburg Republican,…

FORT SCOTT — Fort Scott Middle School was on lockdown briefly late Monday morning because of an incident involving gunfire at a nearby apartment complex. The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Department said law enforcement received a…

TOPEKA — Adoptive parent Janelle DuBree knows firsthand what it meant to be responsible for children who exhibited behavior so extreme they were regrettably placed back into the Kansas foster care system. DuBree, of Emporia,…

TOPEKA — In little more than a week, the Kansas Legislature considered and overwhelmingly approved a landmark reform to childhood sex abuse law, voting unanimously to expand the timeframe in which survivors can file lawsuits…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Flashing red lights atop wind turbines would be curtailed to improve nighttime views under a bill that has been sent to the governor. If signed by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly, it…

Rep. Brad Boyd, an Olathe Democrat, admonished fellow lawmakers last week for ignoring the will of Kansas voters who overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment on abortion last year. He spoke in opposition to House Bill…

CHANUTE — Mary Leonard wasn’t expecting to be pulled over by a Chanute Police Department officer in the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 2021. “It was my father’s car. My headlights weren’t turned on,”…