WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider. The 6-3 opinion comes in a case that wasn't directly about abortion. ...

Updated at 1:26 p.m. Thursday, June 26 WASHINGTON — The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Medicaid provider tax overhaul central to President Donald Trump's tax cut and spending bill does not adhere to the chamber's procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow as Republicans rush to ...

Later this month, KU will end its 2025 fiscal year having nearly eliminated a $50 million budget deficit on its Lawrence campus. There won’t be much time to party, though. The university is projecting a more than $20 million deficit for the next fiscal year, as a new set of financial ...

TOPEKA — A small percentage of funds stolen from Kansas’ unemployment system during the pandemic have been recovered, the state labor secretary says, but time is running out to find the rest. The Kansas Department of Labor processed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent ...

The house has come down on college athletics. Named after a suing student-athlete, the class action lawsuit commonly known as House v. NCAA had its long-awaited settlement approved earlier this month. Beginning July 1, college athletic programs can start handing out about $20.5 million worth ...

Pregnant women in Douglas County have better access to maternity care than women in much of Kansas, statewide data indicates, especially as compared to rural areas — a growing concern for health officials in the state. Care for high-risk pregnancies is concentrated in three main urban ...