TOPEKA — Seven of 10 categories of Kansas government workers were paid below average market rates based on a new survey examining wages at comparable in-state employers and state government employers in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri…

TOPEKA — The 2023 legislative session in Kansas is expected to generate familiar debates on financing of public schools and vouchers for private schools, transgender student participation in sports and creation of a parental bill…

TOPEKA — Kansas legislators want to use a projected budget surplus to address the state’s “Social Security cliff,” which they say is driving retirees out of the state. Kansas taxes income from Social Security benefits,…

Derek Schmidt, Republican candidate for Kansas governor, will be in Iola from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Iola Community Warehouse, 203 S. Jefferson, for a community conversation hosted by the Allen County Republican…

Change is afoot for Allen County. For the first time in a decade, local voters  — part of the newly reformed Ninth Kansas House District — will have someone new representing Allen County in Topeka…

Dr. Fred Gardner believes bureaucratic red tape would make it difficult for a veterinarian to start a new practice in Kansas these days.  Gardner, age 69, a longtime veterinarian from Garnett, is running as a…

TOPEKA — In November, six of Kansas’ seven Supreme Court judges are up for retention votes, and two constitutional amendments will be decided. Advocacy groups say these choices on the November ballot offer voters an…

Nationally, more and more Americans have been enrolled in health insurance since the Affordable Care Act was implemented. But no longer in Kansas, which now has a higher uninsurance rate than the national average rate…

Steven Johnson typically has to offer a bit of a civics lesson at each campaign stop. Johnson, who is running for Kansas state treasurer, was in Iola as part of a series of stops through…

HAYS — Even for a perennially dry region like western Kansas, this year sticks out. Barely any rain. Temperatures that bake the soil into a cracked, parched mess. And forecasts that don’t offer much hope…