State News

TOPEKA — Members of a three-judge Kansas Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday pushed a United Kansas Party attorney to explain why they didn’t take their fight to the Legislature to change a state law…

Two sheriff’s deputies were shot and killed and two others injured as law enforcement tracked and later killed the suspect during a manhunt in rural Stone County in southern Missouri. The Springfield (Mo.) Daily Citizen…

TOPEKA — Former Saint Francis Ministries CEO Robert Smith admitted in federal court Thursday that he used the organization’s credit card for personal expenses and authorized payments for a co-defendant’s fraudulent invoices. Then he pleaded…

TOPEKA — President Donald Trump nominated the director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general’s top appellate lawyer and a Great Bend attorney in private practice to fill three vacancies on the…

TOPEKA — Kansans will soon be required to use the bathroom of their biological sex at birth in all government buildings after the House on Wednesday joined the Senate to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto.…

TOPEKA — The Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would make Kansas the first state in the nation to stop attorneys from recommending an amount for noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering, in civil…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate overrode 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.   …

CHANUTE — It’s time to bite the bullet and address the city’s outdated water and wastewater plants, Chanute City Manager Todd Newman told Chanute Commissioners last week.  “We have no choice. We’re lucky they’re still…

TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee offered bipartisan support for legislation authorizing a protest-petition option for taxpayers eager to block city or county property tax increases that pushed revenue more than 3% above the previous…

TOPEKA — The Senate on Monday passed a bill to force state officials to share Kansans’ personal data with the federal government. In a vote along party lines, Senate Substitute for House Bill 2004 will…