The Federal Emergency Management Agency has told Topeka to correct levee system deficiencies that could impede flood control.

Kansas legislators are considering a proposal to impose a lower state sales tax on groceries than on other consumer goods.

Anthony Weiner has tossed his hat into the race for New York City mayor, joining a crowded field and formally beginning an attempt to come back from a scandal that forced him to resign from the House of Representatives.

In addition to creating a pathway to citizenship for 11.5 million immigrants, the legislation creates a new program for low-skilled foreign labor and would permit highly skilled workers into the country at far higher levels than is currently the case.

Three negotiators resumed their talks on tax issues Tuesday and plan to continue Wednesday.

Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill.

Senator Moran's office provided his comments in "Common Sense," on Monday.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades of Newton was meeting privately Monday with other GOP House leaders.

Senators and House negotiators on tax issues had no meetings Monday.

North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.

Senator Jerry Moran is among a group of senators demanding answers from the administration of the FAA on salary bonuses. “At the time when sequestration was one month away, the FAA’s leadership ignored Secretary LaHood’s specific guidance and awarded bonuses.”

A decision by U.S. District Judge David Campbell rejects the argument by immigrant rights advocates who said Brewer's policy was unconstitutional because it's trumped by federal law.

The Kansas adjutant general and top officials with the Armenian Ministry of Defense say a 10-year relationship between the state and the former Soviet republic has yielded benefits for both groups.

The junior senator from Kansas also expressed his concerns on the Mike Huckabee radio show Tuesday.

Mayor Larry Wolgast says the council seat vacated by Andrew Gray's resignation will be featured in a job posting on May 20th.

A federal review of AP phone records is unprecedented but looks legal, analyst Jeffrey Toobin says. There'd better be a "damned good explanation" for subpoenas, according to Speaker Boehner's spokesman.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, and scheduled a ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the front steps of the Capitol in St. Paul to do so.

President Obama on Monday vowed to find out "exactly what happened" at the IRS during the period under which the agency targeted conservative groups.

Renewed legislative efforts to change the way Kansas selects members for its highest courts are part of a recent wave of modifications sought nationwide to alter the composition of the state's judicial branch

28 town elected officials all voted for the plan that would construct a new building in the same location as the existing school. The proposal now goes to the local school board and then before Newtown voters in a referendum.

Landon Fulmer sought to assure Democrats in the Kansas Senate on Thursday that the state is unlikely to face committing more funding for the project if it issues an additional $202 million in bonds.

Republican precinct committee members selected Becky Nioce Thursday night to fill the remaining term of current Register of Deeds Marilyn Nichols.

State Department official Greg Hicks says he never believed the attack was a protest. Key lawmaker says administration is not cooperating with investigation.

Shawnee County's Republican Central Committee will meet tomorrow to choose a replacement for Register of Deeds Marilyn Nichols.

Former Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday defeated Democratic candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district.