Barring a surprise at the wire, professional horse racing is set to return to Kansas. State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that creates potentially millions of dollars per year in funding to help restart horse racing and the horse breeding and stabling programs that come with ...
Topeka — The leader of a small group of self-described satanists and three other people were arrested Friday following a scuffle inside the Kansas Statehouse arising from an effort by the group’s leader to start a Black Mass in the rotunda. About 30 members of the Kansas City-area Satanic ...
The numbers of the moment have not been kind to universities across the state. At the University of Kansas, $40 million is the amount of budget pain leaders here worry about if new regulations are placed on how universities can spend federal grants from the National Institutes of Health. At ...
TOPEKA — Two tax bills will head to the Kansas governor’s desk after clearing the Senate Thursday, but Republicans and Democrats differed on whether the tax relief made good on their campaign promises to Kansans. Senate Democrats condemned the legislation in back-to-back debates as ...
TOPEKA — 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 the move. Critics called it voter suppression. The GOP-supermajority ...
A bill in the Kansas Legislature aims to help fund the state’s roads by adding additional fees for electric vehicles and hybrids, but the proposal would put a much larger fee on hybrid trucks than similar hybrid sport utility vehicles. Under one plan, owners of hybrid trucks, which include ...