TOPEKA, Kan. — A 170-year-old rivalry is flaring up as Kansas lawmakers try to snatch the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs away from Missouri even though economists long ago concluded subsidizing pro sports isn't worth the cost. The Kansas Legislature's top leaders endorsed helping ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The nine justices ...
In his 22 years in the Kansas Statehouse, Douglas County lawmaker Tom Holland is certain of one thing: Property taxes are the most hated of taxes by constituents. The Democratic state senator from rural Baldwin City, however, is much less confident that legislators will do anything to address ...
Wichita — A Wichita pastor recently encouraged members of his church to mark Pride Month by checking out mass amounts of gay- and transgender-themed books from their local library. The goal? To keep children from accessing the material. “One way you can love your neighbors and your ...
Burlingame — Without dung beetles, rancher Jamin Horton would be up, um, an unpleasant creek. These efficient manure wranglers break down the huge patties produced by the hulking livestock that wander Horton’s Soldier Creek Bison Ranch. Otherwise, the sheer volume of dung would smother the ...
A Republican strategist who filed paperwork nominating a Lawrence lawmaker as a candidate of the No Labels party against her will has acknowledged that the party’s nominating convention was hardly a convention at all. Instead, Kris Van Meteren said in an email on Friday that he simply ...