Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to a news release from her office. The release said Kelly has been fully vaccinated and started experiencing minor symptoms Tuesday. She is following the guidance of public health officials to self-isolate as she ...

Updated at 4:10 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly called Monday for leaders in Republican-leaning Kansas to follow the lead of the state's residents and "turn down the volume" on "this hate, this vitriol, this divisiveness" in politics as she started a second ...

MISSION, Kan. — When Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked the state's colleges to disavow critical race theory, the University of Texas faculty approved a resolution defending their freedom to decide for themselves how to teach about race. Patrick said he took it as a message to "go to ...

TOPEKA — Kansas' recently reelected Democratic governor and Republican legislators are headed for a clash over how their financially flush state should cut taxes, and abortion opponents are wrestling with what ideas to pursue following last year's decisive statewide vote favoring abortion ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it has distributed 30 charging affidavits to prosecutors as part of its investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic priests but, so far, no charges have been filed. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt released the KBI's report ...

TOPEKA — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state's western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply. That ...