TOPEKA — The Kansas House advanced a $25 billion budget Tuesday that sprinkled millions on World Cup soccer and earmarked funding for 5% pay raises to state workers, expansion of services to people with physical…

Kansas House Republicans announced a new two-rate tax reform plan on Tuesday after doubts that a single-rate plan would survive a likely veto from Gov. Laura Kelly. The Senate passed its own single-rate plan last…

TOPEKA — A Kansas House Republican will no longer hold a judiciary committee leadership position following his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence with a gun.  Carl Maughan, R-Colwich, and state representative, was…

TOPEKA — House Republicans who oppose Medicaid expansion are pushing a one-time influx of cash for local hospitals as a way to save the state’s teetering rural health care system.  House Republican leadership said increasing…

TOPEKA — In Lawrence, plastic grocery bags are scarce after a citywide ban on the product took effect Friday. But on the state level, Republican lawmakers have vowed to prevent similar bans from going into…

TOPEKA — The Republican-led Kansas House failed Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a tax reform bill anchored by implementation of a single, flat state income tax rate of 5.25% in addition…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic setback, House Republicans failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, forced to shelve a high-profile priority — for now — after a few GOP lawmakers refused to go…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to “show some spine” and stand up to Donald Trump even as a Senate deal on border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid was rapidly collapsing.…

Rep. Fred Gardner, R-Garnett, is optimistic about a tax reform bill, despite a likely veto from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly.  Gardner stopped by the Register office on Friday, fresh off the first week of the…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature created a path for early consideration of a tax overhaul package concentrated on income and sales tax changes that would feature adoption of the single-rate state income tax of 5.25%…