TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate overturned Gov Laura Kelly’s veto on Tuesday, putting the state one step closer to forcing people to use bathrooms in government buildings that match their biological sex at birth. Senate Substitute for House Bill 244 was overturned by the Senate, with votes ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate approved tougher regulations on vapes Wednesday in an effort to crack down on unlicensed products and eliminate advertisements geared toward children. Major tobacco companies were behind the bill, which would impose the same licensing and advertising ...
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, passed a resolution this week that could temporarily block future immigration detention centers. In a 4-2 vote, the Planning Commission approved a two-year moratorium on special-use permits for jails and detention centers. If ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas property owner wants to impose a restriction across the entire state because of one city’s rules. Stan Weber, CEO and president of Tower Properties, was one of several housing industry professionals who pushed for twin pieces of legislation Feb. 5 during back-to-back ...
A bill that would further tighten how universities could teach diversity, equity and inclusion topics in the classroom was scheduled to get a key vote in the Kansas House on Wednesday, but the hearing never materialized. On Thursday, an assistant with the House Education Committee told the ...
Tuition may be frozen and tenure may be broken. Those are two of the bigger issues that leaders at the University of Kansas and the state’s other universities are watching as the Kansas Legislature enters a critical period for new laws that would impact higher education. One proposal that ...