TOPEKA — Republicans in the Kansas Senate approved Wednesday a three-year, $1.6 billion tax reform bill anchored to introduction of a controversial flat 5.25% state income tax rate, but not by the two-thirds margin required…

Dustin and Sarah LaCrone created a delightful Christmas wonderland surrounding their home at South and Spruce streets. The family is also known for their elaborate Halloween decorations.

WASHINGTON — Congress appears poised to leave town before Christmas without a topline spending agreement, which could doom the chances of getting full-fledged fiscal 2024 appropriations bills done in January.If there’s no deal on spending…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Thursday to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York.The House voted 214-191 along party lines on a resolution to censure Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee in a scathing report Thursday said it has amassed “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking by Republican Rep. George Santos of New York that has been sent to the Justice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy emerged with a spending cut plan to prevent a federal government shutdown by appeasing his hard-right flank, only to see it quickly collapse Thursday in a crushing defeat.…

We asked readers to channel their inner Carolyn Hax and answer this question. Some of the best responses are below. Hi, Carolyn: I’m having family troubles over a house I inherited. When I was 20,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in…

Iolan Jonelle Leslie has a lot of memories of the house at 223 N. Jefferson Ave.  She never owned it, but she lived in the upstairs apartment for 32 years. Now, as the house nears…

Students at the Regional Rural Technical Center at LaHarpe finally got a chance to swing a hammer — make that, a sledgehammer — at a house that will serve as a remodel project for the…