TOPEKA — Supporters in the Kansas Legislature of a bill altering educational expectations of college nursing faculty say they’ve hit upon a possible answer to the state’s persistent nursing shortage. The thrust of Senate Bill 334, on…

TOPEKA — A proposed sales tax break for Kansas gun owners could undermine gun safety goals, according to some opponents, and cut millions in state revenue if passed. Senate Bill 209 would eliminate the sales…

TOPEKA, Kansas — In a February committee meeting, Republican Rep. Sean Willcott of Holton told fellow lawmakers he had used artificial intelligence to help write some of his remarks on the meeting’s topic: artificial intelligence.…

TOPEKA — A bill requiring criminals convicted of serious felonies to be held in county jails rather than be released on bond while awaiting sentencing advanced Monday in the Kansas House on a preliminary vote.…

MANHATTAN — Wind-whipped waves at Tuttle Creek Lake were believed to have caused a fuel barge containing an 1,800-gallon diesel fuel cell to sink Sunday. The barge was on the lake as part of an…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House and Senate went tit-for-tat last week, rebuffing each other’s property tax relief proposals, which have been billed this legislative session as making good on old promises to alleviate Kansans’ residential…

Dozens of Labette County residents and city leaders gathered Thursday in Parsons to hear from representatives of a company planning a 1-mile underground nuclear reactor. Some locals raised concerns while the company tried to make…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House unanimously approved Wednesday a bill forbidding any state agency from serving as receiver of the Texas-based business granted a state bank charter five years ago but since then undermined by…

LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic will reopen its private prison in Leavenworth to house immigration detainees after city commissioners approved the company’s special use permit on Tuesday, the result of a process one commissioner called “agonizing.” Two…

TOPEKA — Sen. Caryn Tyson, who labels herself “Tax Cutting Tyson,” successfully pitched to fellow senators a budget amendment creating a state revenue lockbox dedicated to reducing the property tax mill levy supporting K-12 public…