Abortion, Medicaid rifts elevate politi cal divide at session’s midpoint

Seventy-six Kansas Catholic nuns have signed a letter to legislators urging them to pass Medicaid expansion as a desperately needed life-saving benefit for suffering Kansans.

The Kansas Senate on Wednesday moved to legalize sports gambling over objections from Democrats who complained that a deal brokered after two years of haggling too heavily favors casino managers.

The Kansas Senate will attempt to referee the shifting economic field of play for college and university sports Wednesday by considering a framework for athletes in the state to trade for the first time on their renown by promoting companies and products.

Three weeks before the November 2018 election, Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox vented frustration with her predecessor over the "big mess" erupting in their southwest Kansas community.

Karey Padding returned home in November 2010 the mother of what she believed to be a healthy baby boy.

Square dance caller Allen Hahn said a great injustice was underfoot in the halls of the Capitol. Fans of polka were on the verge of getting a bill through a Senate committee that would make that celebratory movement the official state dance. That would, Hahn said, be a disservice to lovers of square dancing.

Senators in the Kansas Legislature on Tuesday embraced sweeping changes to restrain county appraisers and property valuations that increase local tax burdens.

Kansas is slowly paddling toward adjustment of state law on labeling life jackets used by boaters on lakes and rivers.