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TOPEKA — A Kansas businessman faces up to 25 years in prison after conspiring to sell and export aviation-related equipment to Russia, a scheme that allegedly began in 2020 and continued through Russia’s invasion of…

TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued a nonbinding legal opinion arguing state law required officials engaged in postelection audits to rely on original paper ballots instead of making use of optically scanned images…

TOPEKA — Stars, wheat, or sunflowers? How about none of the above? Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday announced the results of the public vote for a new license plate design. The winner: A design that…

TOPEKA — For two and half years, Davis Hammet has felt gaslighted by the state. Now, he said, a decision made Friday by the Kansas Supreme Court has vindicated his claims that a 2021 voting…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas law that makes it a felony to impersonate an elections official is vague enough that voting rights advocates can pursue a legal challenge, the state’s highest court ruled Friday,…

TOPEKA — GOP leadership in the Legislature rejected Gov. Laura Kelly’s latest proposal for Medicaid expansion, questioning whether federal regulators would allow a work requirement and calling for alternate reforms without offering their own plan.…

TOPEKA — A  Girard dress code policy that led to the forced cutting of an 8-year-old Native American boy’s hair has been rescinded.  Girard School District Board of Education members voted unanimously during a Thursday…

TOPEKA — A northeast Kansas school board has taken wide-ranging action against books that mention nudity, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexuality and other topics, a move critics say is meant to target LGBTQ+ books, but…

Owners of a dump near Lawrence will have to pay more than $34,000 in upgrades and penalties for violating clean air regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. The Hamm Inc. landfill, which is just…

Back when Kelly Roberts was a kid during the 1970s, her family would scout their northeastern Oklahoma pasture every year, looking for the perfect eastern redcedar for their Christmas tree.“I remember traipsing across the pasture…