The U.S. House approved, 224-200, a five-year farm bill Thursday as members of Congress attempt to update major agriculture and nutrition policy after three years of extensions. The bill would authorize subsidy and nutrition assistance…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of delay, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and send the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump…

TOPEKA — The Republican-led Kansas Legislature reconvenes Thursday to weigh Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of two dozen separate bills and line-item vetoes of more than 30 provisions in a state budget bill the Democratic governor…

WASHINGTON — The Senate took the first step Thursday in a GOP-backed plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, sending the House for a second time its bill to fund the department except for…

TOPEKA — A bill changing how courts impose jail time on consecutive sentences and limiting who will be released on bond passed the House despite concerns about how much it will increase costs and remove…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House unanimously approved Wednesday a bill forbidding any state agency from serving as receiver of the Texas-based business granted a state bank charter five years ago but since then undermined by…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House voted to approve Thursday significant revisions of a bipartisan property tax reform bill granting the public a direct voice in decisions by local government to raise property taxes more than…

TOPEKA — The House agriculture committee endorsed a bill on pesticide warning labels that was alternatively described as commonsense regulatory relief for farmers and a measure shielding chemical manufacturers from liability in lawsuits. Before advancing…

Kansas State University and Habitat for Humanity of the Northern Flint Hills are working on an affordable house in Ogden, Kansas, that will use hemp insulation to keep its residents warm in winter and cool…

TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas joined five dozen colleagues requesting a House vote on legislation extending federal tax credits set to expire at the end of December that were implemented to moderate…