TOPEKA — A gust of wind sweeps over bare soil, kicking up enough dirt and dust to cut visibility to nearly zero, and for drivers, the dust storm seems to come out of nowhere. Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70 last week in western Kansas involving dozens of cars and trucks ...

TOPEKA — Two bills passed by the Kansas Legislature this week would ban the use of ranked-choice voting in Kansas and restrict funding for election-related activities, such as voter registration efforts. They join another bill that the Legislature previously sent to the governor’s desk ...

TOPEKA — The House and Senate voted to approve a bill Monday placing the Legislature in greater control of decisions traditionally left to governors when temporarily filling vacancies for U.S. Senate, state treasurer and state insurance commissioner. The content of Senate Bill 105 was ...

The University of Kansas is among 45 universities that the U.S. Department of Education is investigating related to concerns that racial preferences are playing inappropriate roles in admissions or other operations. The Department of Education released via press release a list of schools that ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas House delivered preliminary approval Monday on legislation forbidding external postsecondary educational organizations from compelling a Kansas public and private college or university to violate state law in order to receive full accreditation. The bill previously passed ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate’s budget committee wants to hold $4 million hostage from the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly until state agencies proved they eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion jobs and programs as well as ended use of gender-affirming pronouns in signature blocks of ...