Governor Laura Kelly has signed legislation into law, including one that changes the definition of stalking to include intentionally stalking someone under 14-years-old.
Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed Senate Bill 50, which would require marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales, transient and guest taxes, as well as 911 fees.
Governor Laura Kelly kicked off the first COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Taskforce meeting on Wednesday to promote equitable vaccine distribution in vulnerable communities across Kansas.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is signaling she’ll likely reject a bill that’s part of a culture war flashpoint — an effort in Kansas and other states to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.
The Republican chairman of a Kansas House committee that will redraw the state’s congressional districts is considering a run against Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids in a Kansas City-area district.
Republican Roger Marshall of Kansas is among a handful of conservative U.S. senators who opposed moving forward with a Democratic-sponsored measure for confronting hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Charley Crabtree was looking to help voters in nursing homes get absentee ballots delivered on time last year, so he picked up about 75 from at least 10 locations in his hometown of Lawrence. Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature want to make what he did a crime punishable by up to six months in jail.
Kansas Senator Roger Marshall has teamed with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst to put an end to any suggestion that federal agencies participate in “Meatless Mondays”.
Kansas conservatives on Friday pushed a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girl’s and women’s school sports through the Republican-controlled Legislature but don’t have enough support yet to overcome a possible veto by the state’s Democratic governor.
Republicans will vote on removing a powerful Kansas lawmaker charged with drunken driving from his leadership job following the release of document saying he taunted the Highway Patrol trooper who arrested him and called the officer “donut boy.”
Conservative Republican legislators were close Thursday to winning final legislative approval for a measure that would allow parents of academically struggling students to pay for private schooling with state dollars normally earmarked for public schools.
LGBTQ-rights advocates in Kansas are relying on the state’s Democratic governor or the courts to block a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ or women’s school sports after conservatives on Thursday moved to push it through the GOP-controlled Legislature.
A judge ruled Wednesday that a Kansas law banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure is “unconstitutional and unenforceable” under a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling protecting abortion rights.
The American Federation of Teachers has endorsed a hazard pay program for frontline workers that has been introduced in the Kansas Senate and to Governor Laura Kelly.
A researcher from the University of Kansas has suggested that President Joe Biden use funds to invest in Campesino agriculture to relieve pressure at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Kansas counties already had started dropping or weakening mask rules before lawmakers toppled Gov. Laura Kelly’s newly reissued order requiring them — and more are expected to follow suit even as variants first detected in South Africa and the United Kingdom have been found in the state.
An effort to legalize sports betting in Kansas has stalled, and it’s not clear that state lawmakers can agree on how many places should offer wagering while also navigating other gambling issues clouding the debate.
