TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach made his case to Supreme Court justices on Friday that voting rights should not be given the same protection as other constitutional rights, hoping to sway them over to his side in the latest twist of a long-lasting legal battle over 2021 election ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Monday put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked older restrictions that for years have spelled out what providers must tell patients and forced patients to wait 24 hours to end their pregnancies. The ruling was another big victory ...
Story updated at 4:36 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25: The number of reported rapes on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus last year more than doubled from a year earlier. The number of “dating violence” crimes also soared, increasing more than tenfold, according to recently released ...
The University of Kansas is officially at odds with its graduate teaching assistants union and its stance that Israel is to blame for the war that is now spreading in the Middle East. The executive board of the GTA union last week, as the Journal-World reported, issued a Palestine solidarity ...
TOPEKA — To help remedy the state’s child care shortage, 27 organizations have been allocated $11.4 million to open up more child care slots across the state. Gov. Laura Kelly, in conjunction with the Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund, announced a second wave of funding for child ...
The executive board of the labor union for graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas has issued a statement condemning the state of Israel as part of a broader letter of solidarity for Palestine. “We condemn the ongoing settler colonial project, known as the nation-state of ...