Kansas lawmakers proposed a constitutional amendment Thursday that could potentially affect abortion rights, after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled last year that women have the right to an abortion under the state’s constitution.
Read moreAfter a decade of turbulent financial troubles, Kansas Democratic Governor Laura Kelly urged lawmakers in Topeka to continue the state’s economic upturn in her State of the State Address Wednesday evening.
Read moreKansas will likely expand Medicaid up to 150,000 additional residents, according to a deal struck Thursday between Republican state legislators and Democratic Governor Laura Kelly.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will not run for an open Senate seat from Kansas this fall, two people close to McConnell said Monday. Pompeo’s decision complicates Republicans’ chances of holding what should be a guaranteed seat in the deep red state as they battle to retain their slim Senate majority in November elections.
Read moreThe Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church sued the City of Lenexa, Kansas in federal court for prohibiting it from using its church as an overnight homeless shelter.
Read moreThe Supreme Court was sharply divided Monday as the justices considered whether a police officer can pull a car over based solely on the knowledge that it is registered to a person with a suspended license.
Read moreA lawyer for Kansas faced an uphill battle Wednesday in defending identity-theft charges against undocumented workers who use other people’s Social Security numbers to gain employment.
Read moreAs the Supreme Court opened its fall term Monday with a case about what it takes to plead insanity, Justice Stephen Breyer offered a hypothetical example of two criminals — one who believed a dog had told him to shoot another person, the other who shot another person because he believed that person was a dog.
Read moreThe bizarre case of a Kansas sheriff’s department that mistook tomato plants and loose-leaf tea for evidence of a marijuana grow and accordingly launched a SWAT-style raid on an innocent suburban family will return to a lower court for a third crack at a judgment.
Read moreU.S. Attorney General William Barr, in a visit to law enforcement officers in Kansas on Wednesday, praised their efforts in helping to lower the nation’s crime rates while also refusing to comment on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss constitutional claims against the Kansas secretary of administration and the superintendent of its Highway Patrol, for banning protesters from the Statehouse.
Read moreRepublican immigration hardliner and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach launched his campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday.
Read moreA Kansas judge has tossed a defamation lawsuit against The Kansas City Star brought by Kansas Senate Republican Leader Jim Denning, finding that the lawmaker failed to show malice.
Read moreThe Kansas Supreme Court indefinitely suspended an attorney from practice of law in the state for violating professional rules of conduct by failing to respond to a discovery request, calling a deposition videographer a Nazi, and flipping off a representative of the opposing party.
Read moreThe Kansas Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that the state has met its obligation to adequately fund public schools, but will retain jurisdiction over the 9-year-old case to ensure state lawmakers carry out scheduled funding in the future.
Read moreIn a unanimous decision, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly did not have authority to withdraw the nomination of a state judge to the Kansas Court of Appeals in an unusual legal quandry.
Read moreIn a decision that has taken more than two years, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state constitution protects the right to have an abortion.
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