Nation Jun 19 Kansas lawmakers plan to help state pay for new stadiums to attract Chiefs and Royals away from Missouri Kansas is making a serious run at becoming the new home for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. State legislators approved a plan Tuesday to lure the Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals away from Missouri.
Politics Apr 29 Backers of a Kansas gender-affirming care ban for minors fail to override the governor’s veto Two Republicans who'd backed the bill earlier voted against overriding the veto, citing their concerns about provisions that included one that would have barred state employees from advocating social transitioning for transgender youth.
Politics Apr 19 Kansas has a new anti-DEI law, but Gov. Kelly has vetoed bills on abortion and even police dogs The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling centers while allowing restrictions on college diversity initiatives to become law without her signature.
Politics Apr 12 Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors and 2 anti-abortion bills The governor of Kansas has vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she says is a vague bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having…
Politics Mar 07 Voters backed abortion rights. Yet Kansas could make doctors ask patients why they want abortions Kansas would join at least seven other states with Republican legislatures that ban most abortions even though voters have affirmed abortion rights in the state.
Politics Feb 28 States offer services for disabled kids, then make their families wait 10 years for them The parents of hundreds of thousands of U.S. children with physical or intellectual disabilities are waiting for state-covered services designed to foster independence and job skills for adulthood.
Nation Feb 27 Some states seek to deny transgender and nonbinary people’s rights by legally defining sex At least 13 states have proposed bills this year that seek to narrowly define sex or gender as binary.
Politics Feb 09 Kansas’ attorney general is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents, even with no specific law Kansas' attorney general is telling public schools they're required to tell parents their children are transgender or nonbinary even if they're not out at home, though Kansas is not among the states with a law that explicitly says to do…
Nation Jan 23 Kansas lawmakers want a report on last year’s police raid of a weekly newspaper Thirty-five Democrats and 10 Republicans in the Kansas House have introduced a resolution condemning the Aug. 11 raid of the Marion County Record's offices and the home of its publisher in central Kansas.
Nation Oct 02 Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post.