Kansas was born arguing. Before it became a state, before there was a Capitol dome in Topeka, the Kansas Territory was consumed by a defining question: whether it would enter the Union free or slave.…

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…

TOPEKA — Central Christian Academy and Atchison County Community Schools serve distinct K-12 populations, but superintendents of both oppose a proposed mandate by the Kansas Legislature to force private and public schools to ban personal…

TOPEKA — Republican legislators abruptly cut off debate on a bill that stops people living unlawfully in the country from getting public benefits, passing it out of the House with an amendment the Senate already…

Is the size of the Iola City Council a problem? Is there a better way to ensure competitive elections, such as abandoning the city’s voting wards? Or are there other solutions to finding folks willing…

The Allen County Airport is poised to receive a major upgrade thanks to $1.1 million in grant funding from the Kansas Airport Improvement Program (KAIP), but not without stirring debate during Tuesday morning’s Allen County…

LAWRENCE — Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Larson is convinced building blocks of the Scopes trial — a showdown between human evolutionary biologists and fundamentalists beholden to creationism — remains relevant as activists work to build…

It’s an ambitious legacy for a community of fewer than 600 citizens. But Lecompton, 13 miles northwest of Lawrence, has leaned into the challenge. After all, for six contentious years it was the capital of…

Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota faced off Tuesday night in what is expected to be the only debate between the two vice presidential nominees and, most likely,…

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other…