KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ foster care homes have not been meeting health and safety requirements, even though state inspectors visited regularly, federal inspectors found in an audit. Foster care children have been living…

TOPEKA, Kansas — Control of the Kansas Legislature could turn on dozens of down-ballot races in the Aug. 4 primary election, in which many of the contests, particularly for the Kansas Senate, pit conservative Republicans…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Finance Council has allocated more than $254 million of federal coronavirus relief funds mostly toward efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 and boost the state’s economy.…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ child welfare agency balked at releasing records about a 3-year-old girl whose battered body was found this month, despite a 2018 law that aimed to make such documents more…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is seeing an increase in advance voting for the Aug. 4 primary amid the coronavirus outbreak.  As of Tuesday, the number of ballots voters returned by mail is almost six…

In less than two weeks, Kansas will face another coronavirus-related test: an election under pandemic conditions. How will we fare? That depends on state and county preparation, of course — but it also depends on…

Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner, right, visits with Todd Brandon, owner of TJ’s BBQ in Humboldt Thursday. LaTurner, one of three seeking the Republican nomination for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, spent…

The Facebook post just before 9 last Sunday night was the kind you couldn’t help but stop and read. “Friends: I’m asking for prayers for my hometown of Logan, Kansas,” wrote Andy Stanton in a…

The irony is not lost that Wednesday’s meeting to decide whether Kansas schools should delay opening until after Labor Day was conducted remotely via Zoom. Sequestered in their homes, members of the Kansas Board of…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A civil rights group said Monday it has resolved a lawsuit challenging a blanket ban on signs and restrictive permits for protests at the Kansas Statehouse. Under the terms of the…