From fighting cancer to attracting students from across the nation, leaders at the University of Kansas have a big plan for the state’s flagship university. Now, they’ve also got a big new dollar goal to help make it happen: $2.5 billion. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod on Thursday evening ...

TOPEKA — Kansas is poised to nearly double its lawmakers' pay in 2025 in hopes of attracting more diverse members, only months after the Legislature boosted the salaries of other state officials. A commission created by the Republican-controlled Legislature to study lawmakers' pay on ...

WICHITA — When Kansas lawmakers convene at the Statehouse in January, their to-do list could include several measures that would affect public school districts and students. A special committee on education, chaired by Republican Rep. Kristey Williams of Augusta, met over four days this ...

TOPEKA — A computer network incident in Kansas interrupting electronic filings and payments in the state’s appellate courts and the district courts in all but populous Johnson County has been extended indefinitely, officials said Monday. The Kansas Supreme Court issued an updated ...

In the last nine years, Carol Schenk of Wichita has seen the assessed value of her home increase from $152,000 to $240,000 — pushing her annual property tax bill from $2,200 in 2014 to more than $3,000 in 2022. Schenk told lawmakers in a letter earlier this year that the tax on her nearly ...

TOPEKA — Kansas' Republican attorney general asked the state's highest court to reward the GOP-controlled Legislature for following through on a decade's worth of court-mandated education funding increases by making it harder for local school districts to force higher spending in the ...