Medicaid expansion bill is on thin ice as Senate President Susan Wagle angles for a vote on a constitutional abortion amendment. Our Statehouse team breaks down that issue and more.
As Senate President Susan Wagle cozied up to donors at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser, her colleagues in the Kansas Legislature navigated the smoldering debris of a failed vote on Wagle's signature issue - a constitutional amendment on abortion.
The chancellor at the University of Kansas urged a U.S. Senate subcommittee to adopt a federal standard to guide decisions in the transitional era of college sports as student athletes secure the right to directly earn money from use of their name, image or likeness.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt endorsed a proposal to create a state law requiring Kansas students pass an examination based on the U.S. citizenship test to graduate from high school.
Terrell Davis pictures a future where students currently at risk of falling through cracks instead walk across a graduation stage with both a high school diploma and 60 hours of college credit.
Hesston classic automobile owner Stephen Owens isn't convinced upgrading features on an old Ford should prompt law enforcement officers to declare the vehicle ineligible for an antique license tag.
A conservative think tank sought support for a Kansas House bill requiring public school districts to prove state aid earmarked for at-risk students was spent on authorized academic programs and to compel each district to report on student academic progress in relation to each initiative.
A proposal moving through the Legislature would exempt businesses from liability for high school students participating in work-based learning programs.
A pair of elected officials from Saline County joined forces to lend a hand to the Salina-based nonprofit humanitarian organization caught up in an unusual decision to block a property tax exemption.
Garden City Mayor Troy Unruh considers a Kansas Senate bill touted as a boon for property tax transparency to be a hamstring on the capacity of local public agencies to create jobs.
The Republican majority in the Kansas House fell short of the two-thirds majority required to place on statewide ballots in August an amendment declaring the Kansas Constitution never conferred on women a right to abortion.
The former dental lab instructor at the women's prison in Topeka who was convicted last week of unlawful sexual relations with an inmate is asking a Shawnee County District Court judge to toss his conviction.
A two-year-old Kansas law designed to help former prisoners find employment placed limits on the power of occupational licensing boards to reject applicants guilty of crimes unrelated to the job credential or if the applicant was crime-free for five years after finishing a misdemeanor sentence.
LGBTQ advocates launched an offensive against legislation drafted by a Kansas House member who wants to ban transgender children in public and private schools from participating in girls sports.
The Republican-led Kansas House advanced to final action a proposed constitutional amendment declaring the state's Bill of Rights never guaranteed women a right to abortion and would affirm a ban on government funding of abortion.
A sports gambling bill introduced in the Kansas House goes beyond legislation in the Senate by allowing up to 1,200 licensed retailers as well as the state's four casinos to take bets on athletic events under a system administered by the state lottery.
Law enforcement officers and county prosecutors object to legislation in the Kansas House increasing potential good-time incarceration credit to 50% of a sentence in response to crowding at state correctional facilities.
The Kansas attorney general recommended the state pay $1.5 million and grant other benefits to the man wrongfully convicted in a double-murder in Kansas City, Kan., and incarcerated nearly a quarter century before released in 2017.
Rep. Ken Rahjes held up a blank sheet of yellow legal-pad paper to illustrate the state of affairs now in the Kansas Legislature.
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