GARDEN CITY, Kansas — Gov. Laura Kelly visited southwest Kansas Tuesday amid a measles outbreak to urge people in the region to vaccinate themselves and their children. State health officials have been racing to keep…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday a request was submitted to the U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to reinstate more than $22 million in federal funding appropriated to Kansas to help students who…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve about had it with the “leadership” at both our national and state levels. I was a Republican until George W. Bush lied and got us into an ill-conceived…

TOPEKA — Substantive income and sales tax reform in Kansas continued during March to carve new channels in the state revenue stream, officials said. Adjustments to state retail sales tax policy by ending application of…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill that would roll over the previous year’s state budget if the Legislature failed to pass one, pointing out that every legislative body since the state’s…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas on Tuesday shrunk what already was among the nation’s shortest windows for voting by mail, arguing that problems with the U.S. Postal Service’s handling of ballots required…

TOPEKA — Rep. Steven Howe’s disappointment that state appropriations to school districts for special education hadn’t kept pace with legal thresholds for the past 14 years reflected a personal connection with students grappling with developmental,…

TOPEKA — Kansas Senate Democrats attempted Tuesday to insert Medicaid expansion into a bill increasing legislative oversight over public assistance programs. The outcome was the same in the Kansas House when a Democrat sought to…

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has hit the home stretch of her second term. She will give only one more State of the State speech after this one, and Wednesday evening found her in a contemplative…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s seventh State of the State speech on Wednesday called for investments in water resources and public schools, streamlining early childhood regulation, pursuit of sustainable tax policy and expansion of Medicaid…