TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a controversial bathroom bill that forces transgender people to use facilities that match their biological sex at birth, saying the poorly drafted legislation would have far-reaching consequences. The Democratic governor now hands House Substitute for Senate ...

TOPEKA — A Kansas property owner wants to impose a restriction across the entire state because of one city’s rules. Stan Weber, CEO and president of Tower Properties, was one of several housing industry professionals who pushed for twin pieces of legislation Feb. 5 during back-to-back ...

A bill that would further tighten how universities could teach diversity, equity and inclusion topics in the classroom was scheduled to get a key vote in the Kansas House on Wednesday, but the hearing never materialized. On Thursday, an assistant with the House Education Committee told the ...

TOPEKA — Erin Merryn wants the Kansas Legislature to require public school teachers and their students in kindergarten through high school to take part in annual training and instruction on prevention of sexual abuse. A bill before the House Education Committee would accomplish this through ...

Tuition may be frozen and tenure may be broken. Those are two of the bigger issues that leaders at the University of Kansas and the state’s other universities are watching as the Kansas Legislature enters a critical period for new laws that would impact higher education. One proposal that ...

TOPEKA — Central Christian Academy and Atchison County Community Schools serve distinct K-12 populations, but superintendents of both oppose a proposed mandate by the Kansas Legislature to force private and public schools to ban personal cellphones and other electronic devices during school ...