A pair of elected officials are squaring off in the Republican primary to represent a Kansas House district that includes northeast Douglas County and a large portion of Eudora. Incumbent Rep. Lance Neelly is facing a challenge from current Leavenworth County Commissioner Mike Stieben in the ...
The race to become the Democratic nominee to represent large parts of Lawrence in the Kansas Senate has a high-stakes element to it — one incumbent legislator is guaranteed to lose. That’s because two sitting legislators are running for Kansas Senate District No. 2, which covers nearly ...
Topeka — Gov. Laura Kelly and top legislative leaders voted Tuesday to allocate $35.7 million to public higher education after the Kansas Board of Regents certified that campus administrators complied with a state law forbidding employment and admissions decisions to be based on diversity, ...
The School of Hard Knocks — sometimes known as life— is good at teaching a multitude of lessons. It stinks, though, at issuing degrees. The University of Kansas, however, is undertaking a multimillion-dollar project that is creating new types of degree programs that indeed will give ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' highest court strongly reaffirmed Friday that the state constitution protects abortion access, striking down a ban on a common second-trimester procedure and laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers. The pair of 5-1 decisions suggests ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places on Friday, overturning a ruling from a California-based appeals court that found such laws amount to cruel and unusual punishment when shelter space is ...