Topeka — Kansas Republicans pressing to reform the Legislature’s annual budget-writing process want to displace governors from the lead role in proposing state spending changes, alter a Statehouse culture that embraced the three-day workweek, and make it difficult for lobbyists to slip ...

Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday in Olathe ceremonially signed the bipartisan tax cuts package that became law earlier this summer. “Kansans can expect to see meaningful tax cuts and can rest assured they will not threaten our ability to continue fully funding essential services,” Kelly ...

Last April, the Kansas Legislature approved a bill making it a crime to coerce another person to have an abortion. Critics said it would be a redundant law that could intimidate reproductive health care providers. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the bill, a move that would kill many pieces ...

A new law regulating contract for deed home sales is now in effect in Kansas. Contracts for deed allow a homebuyer to make monthly payments directly to a seller instead of to a bank, with the expectation that the home’s title will be transferred to the buyer once all installments are ...

TOPEKA — Kansas City, Kansas, Rep. Marvin Robinson II has died unexpectedly, his sister announced Friday. He was 67. DeLisa Fowler, Robinson’s sister, announced his death in a Facebook post in the early hours of the morning Friday. The post did not disclose how Robinson died. “May his ...

CHICAGO — Actress and climate activist Julia Louis-Dreyfus asked eight Democratic women governors Wednesday if she would be ready for public office after playing a vice president and president on the hit cable TV show “Veep.” “You’re more qualified than Donald Trump, don’t worry ...