For 14 years, Laura Kelly has been the outsider looking in as a Democrat in the state senate. Though she watched Republicans set policy, Kelly didn’t let her underdog status go to waste. Instead she…

Every time that Rep. Kent Thompson holds up his hand to defend the Kansas Constitution, its import weighs heavily on his conscience. Monday’s swearing-in ceremony to signal the start of the 2019 legislative session will…

After describing the increased disrepair affecting many of the county’s secondary roads — a consequence of the construction project currently jamming parts of U.S. 169 — Allen County commissioners were able to secure a verbal…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ incoming Democratic governor uses words like “decimated” to describe what’s happened to state government over the past decade and will be looking to add staff, boost spending and rethink contracts…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are likely to face renewed debate in the next legislative session about how or whether to hold oil and gas companies accountable for property damage caused by earthquakes in…

Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly insists the state budget she’s preparing can fully fund the state’s schools, expand Medicaid coverage to another 150,000 people and begin to repair a troubled child welfare system — without a…

The Kansas Legislature showed its tendency to be both more conservative and more liberal on Monday. The selection of House leaders took the Republican and Democratic factions a bit more to the right and left,…

We live in a democracy, right? Kansas apparently needs to be reminded of that basic fact, because as things stand today, just a handful of Kansans is allowed to fill certain vacancies that crop up…