House Speaker Dan Hawkins on Thursday created a new bipartisan oversight committee with subpoena power to serve in a watchdog ...

A new plan for encouraging cities and counties to hold down spending while giving taxpayers a new weapon to challenge bloated ...

A split Senate committee on Wednesday moved out a bill advocated by Attorney General Kris Kobach banning immigrants living in the United States illegally from receiving most state or local benefits, ...

The Kansas House on Tuesday passed a bill increasing the campaign contributions for the first time in more than 40 years, a ...

Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday named District Judge Lori Bolton Fleming of Pittsburg to the Kansas Court of Appeals, the seventh ...

Republican state Rep. Nick Hoheisel is apologizing to the House for any inconvenience or distractions that an incident with ...

House Majority Leader Chris Croft on Monday renewed his push to get the Legislature to ban foreign interests from adversarial ...

Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert asked Senate budget writers on Monday to spare the courts from a 1.5%-across-the-board budget cut for most state agencies. Luckert told the Senate Ways ...

A Saline County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans “fusion candidates” who could represent more than one party on the ballot, saying Kansas has the right to keep elections ...

It was a short but hectic week as the Legislature races to end this legislative session by April 12. Lots of bills flying out of committees and off the floors of either chamber.  Basically three days ...

Danedri Herbert, a longtime aide to Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, emerged Saturday as the new chair of the Kansas Republican Party. Herbert, a longtime conservative, and her slate of candidates ...

The state ethics commission has released a key GOP political consultant from a subpoena issued three years ago, saying he was ...