TOPEKA — Measures in several state legislatures this year, including the Kansas Legislature, have called for new approaches to weaken the power of judges. One would abandon a centuries-old precedent that courts can decide whether laws are constitutional. Another would change how judges are ...

TOPEKA — Senate and House Republicans voted Tuesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation that bans gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting pleas from Democrats to turn attention instead to issues that concern Kansans. Republicans used their dominance in both chambers to ...

The University of Kansas is expecting enrollment on its Lawrence campus to grow again next year — but after that, community leaders likely shouldn’t expect much future growth in student numbers. That’s partially by design, members of the Kansas Board of Regents were told on Wednesday. ...

TOPEKA — Academic leaders of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University said Tuesday legislation retroactively abolishing property rights inherent in tenure would run off distinguished educators, undercut faculty recruiting, destroy research programs, trigger an exodus of students ...

TOPEKA — Kansas' Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a proposed Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The GOP-controlled Legislature's members had expected Gov. Laura Kelly's action because she vetoed two similar bills previously. This year's measure not ...

Red states are echoing President Donald Trump’s quest to slash the size and cost of the federal government with their own initiatives aimed at making government smaller and more efficient. In the first hours of his second term, Trump signed an executive order creating a temporary commission ...