TOPEKA — Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins said the 2026 Legislature would strive to slash $200 million from the state government’s budget and seek to reduce expenditures on the Medicaid program delivering health care to…

Kansas advocates say recent changes to federal policy that bar many immigrants from accessing certain health services is meant to create worse living conditions for a vulnerable community with limited health care options. They also…

TOPEKA — CoreCivic and the city of Leavenworth will continue their fight over development regulations in front of a Kansas appellate court after a Leavenworth district judge decided to wait for a decision in that…

TOPEKA — State leaders continued to stand firm against federal demands for personal data of Kansans who have received food assistance, even after a letter last week threatened funding losses.  Kansas Department for Children and…

TOPEKA — Judith Deedy said there’s been a disconnect for a decade in Kansas’ student assessment scores. Her oldest child once earned fives — the highest level at the time — until 2015, when she…

TOPEKA — Kansas reported no new measles cases for the third week in a row Wednesday, and health officials are encouraging parents to vaccinate their children as they return to school next week to keep…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly appointed an attorney in private practice who has argued cases before the state and federal appellate courts to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court. The governor said Thursday…

FREDONIA — A 21-year-old Fredonia man faces aggravated kidnapping and domestic battery charges after officers said a woman was reportedly forced into a vehicle early Wednesday. The Fredonia Police Department reported the arrest of Aden…

LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic attorneys asked a Leavenworth District Court judge Wednesday to dismiss three counts in a case filed by the City of Leavenworth, pushing to end the court battle affecting its closed Leavenworth prison.…

TOPEKA — A cheese manufacturing plant in western Kansas created hundreds of new jobs, but developers needed help building enough housing for the plant’s workers. The state program that helped fund 40 homes in a…