TOPEKA — Attorneys general from Kansas and three other states filed a lawsuit alleging the method of counting population for allocation of U.S. House seats unfairly benefitted states with concentrations of people in the country without permission.
TOPEKA — Topeka resident Lanell Griffith urged senators Thursday to support a proposed constitutional amendment that would cap annual increases in appraised property values that result in higher tax bills.
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s seventh State of the State speech on Wednesday called for investments in water resources and public schools, streamlining early childhood regulation, pursuit of sustainable tax policy and expansion of Medicaid eligibility.
TOPEKA — The top election official in Kansas urged the Legislature to increase the penalty for threatening a poll worker, impose a ban on political parties nominating candidates without an individual’s consent, and broaden state authority to compel counties to securely deploy ballot drop boxes. Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican who has announced interest in running for governor in 2026, recommended the Kansas House consider tweaks rather than wholesale overhaul to state election law.
A June trial date was set Friday for one man charged with injuring a Lindsborg police officer during a street brawl almost a year ago. Another defendant was arraigned in the Jan. 28 incident and pleaded not guilty to all six charges against him.
Teachers at Derby High School near Wichita protested a district decision to reject a social studies curriculum over concerns about anti-Trump bias.
Lindsborg had showings of a documentary about a local woman who said consensual sex turned into rape and had wounds to show it, but who couldn’t get the charge brought by the country attorney or a grand jury that she summoned herself through a little-known Kansas law – an effort that won national attention. “Loud Enough – Surviving Justice,” a 2023 film by Hilary Klotz Steinman, was presented Friday night and Saturday afternoon at the Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center.
TOPEKA — Two Kansas legislators prefiled a bill that would deliver millions in voter-approved school bonds that were blocked earlier this year because of a strict ruling from the Kansas attorney general.