MANHATTAN — Rhonda Goodin expressed appreciation for the beauty of flowering Callery pear trees that dot the yard of her home in Derby and argued against imposition by the Kansas Department of Agriculture of a…

TOPEKA — Kansas legislators heard about the dangers of “welfare fraud” from an out-of-state lobbyist who has previously asked lawmakers to limit federal benefits. Sam Adolphsen, policy director at the Foundation for Government Accountability, said…

TOPEKA — A plan by Republican legislative leaders to flatten income tax rates would save billionaire political donor Charles Koch an estimated $875,000, while most of the state’s workers would save between $37 and $84…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Agriculture confirmed Monday the 15th case of avian influenza since Dec. 1 amid a national outbreak that began in 2022 and spread to all but three states and more…

TOPEKA — The state’s highest court on Friday rejected a man convicted of capital murder’s appeal against the death penalty.  One justice said he would consider examining the constitutionality of the death penalty in future…

TOPEKA — A Kansas Senate committee conducted a hearing Thursday on a presumptively unconstitutional proposal to transfer to political parties the authority held by the state’s governor to appoint temporary replacements when vacancies occurred in…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas on Thursday passed a broad package of tax cuts promoted as widespread relief that the Democratic governor is likely to veto because she says it favors the…

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…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas court system needs at least $2.6 million in additional funds to recover from an October cyberattack that prevented the electronic filing of documents and blocked online access to records…

TOPEKA — Citing God’s guidance, the Kansas Republican Party has declared itself against same-sex marriage in an early unreleased version of its proposed 2024 platform. “God created man and woman,” the proposed platform reads. “Therefore,…