Story updated at 7:41 p.m. Thursday: TOPEKA — Republican lawmakers seeking to limit what Kansas public schools teach about racism have settled on a proposed “parents’ bill of rights” aimed at giving people outside the education system more power to shape what happens in classrooms and ...

TOPEKA — Criminal defense attorneys taking on challenging work of the Kansas State Board of Indigents’ Defense are struggling under the weight of insufficient state funding and the burdens of withering caseloads, modest wages and high turnover. Kansas’ indigent defense program provides ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was in a familiar spot earlier this month when Republican legislators sent him a bill that would have banned anti-racist teachings in schools. For the 66th time since taking office in 2019, he pulled out his veto pen. The rejection was the latest reminder of the ...

Updated at 4 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Democrats, a civil rights group and a national elections watchdog filed two lawsuits Monday against Kansas officials over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state's only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district ...

OLATHE — A California man was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed at a suburban Kansas City, Kansas, airport over the weekend, authorities said. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the pilot as Robert Douglas Ming, 51, of Laguna Niguel, California, television station KSHB ...

TOPEKA — Top Kansas Republicans appeared to get the new congressional district lines they wanted this week through horse-trading in the Legislature. Then, hours after the map became law, the GOP leader who supposedly struck the deal seemed to go back on it. A Republican physician-lawmaker ...