TOPEKA — A House bill would allocate an additional $20 million annually to the Kansas Water Plan fund to support projects for cities across the state. House Bill 2113 builds upon new funding from the…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House on a voice vote decided Thursday to send a three-year, $1.4 billion tax cut package back to House and Senate negotiators, overriding a call from House Speaker Dan Hawkins to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers introduced a $1.2 trillion spending package Thursday that sets the stage for avoiding a partial government shutdown for several key federal agencies this weekend and allows Congress, nearly six months into…

TOPEKA — Late Thursday, following fiery speeches on both sides of the aisle and lengthy debate, Kansas senators approved a new iteration of a flat tax plan that favors the state’s top earners and would…

TOPEKA — A plan by Republican legislative leaders to flatten income tax rates would save billionaire political donor Charles Koch an estimated $875,000, while most of the state’s workers would save between $37 and $84…

TOPEKA — A wildfire task force established by Gov. Laura Kelly responded to the surge of lethal infernos and high probability of more in the future with 30 recommendations for preventing and responding to the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s scaled-back social services…

What the country needs right now is a plan. Actually it needs lots of plans for how things are going to work if COVID-19 sticks around for months or more. What are we going to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration, eager to show progress on prescription drug costs, moved forward today on its plan to allow Americans to safely and legally get access to lower-priced medicines from abroad. Health…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas are moving closer to passing Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s plan to boost spending on public schools after some GOP lawmakers dropped their push for an alternative Wednesday…