An attorney for Malachi Davis, accused in the March 8 shooting death of a Humboldt man, is asking a judge to dismiss the second-degree murder charge against him. Davis, 25, of Humboldt, is accused of…

LAWRENCE — Two transgender men from Lawrence are suing the state over a new law that invalidates driver’s licenses and restricts bathroom use based on sex assigned at birth, citing numerous constitutional rights and fear…

TOPEKA — The Kansas bill that would have required kindergarteners to be potty trained before starting school stalled in committee. House Education Committee chairwoman Rep. Susan Estes, a Republican from Wichita, declined to bring the…

TOPEKA — President Donald Trump took the first step Thursday to reclassify marijuana, but the move won’t affect Kansans unless the state changes its laws, a law enforcement professional said.  Trump signed an executive order…

TOPEKA — Kansas is one of 16 states that have enacted restrictive voting laws this year, falling just short of records set in 2021, according to a roundup of such laws from a national think…

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the state’s new congressional map into law Sunday, splitting up the Kansas City-area district currently held by one of the state’s two Democratic House members. The Show-Me State joins a…

LAWRENCE — An attorney representing 78-year-old Earl Ray Harris asked the Kansas Court of Appeals to toss a felony conviction resulting from a protest against public employees who were digging a ditch on his land…

As students return from summer break, Kansas school districts are still figuring out how to comply with a new law that requires certain classes to show a three-minute video of human development in the womb.…

TOPEKA — A Kansas reproductive rights advocacy group, backed by a Washington, D.C. law firm, sued state officials over a new law banning financial contributions from “foreign nationals” to support or oppose constitutional amendments. The…

TOPEKA — A new Kansas law adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism — a definition that has been criticized for conflating criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism. The legislature…