UPDATED: Governor vetoes bill requiring sex-designated driver’s licenses, government restrooms
(Updated to include comments from House speaker, Senate president and top House Democrat)
Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a bill banning transgender people from using...
Kelly administration says food-assistance data could end up with foreign governments
Gov. Laura Kelly's administration says the federal government's demands for records identifying applicants or recipients of the food-assistance program is illegal because it wants...
Governor names director of new child services agency
Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday named a woman with more than 20 years of experience working with children, families and education to lead the...
Attorney general says request for sanctions has ‘nefarious political underpinning’
Attorney General Kris Kobach said an effort to sanction him in an ongoing legal dispute over transgender marker changes on driver's licenses is a...
Governor’s Regents nomination stalls over WSU ‘disparaging’ remarks
One of Gov. Laura Kelly's two nominees to the Kansas Board of Regents failed to get out of a Senate committee Wednesday because of...
Governor taking budget on road tour
With the Legislature taking away the executive branch's power to direct the budget, Gov. Laura Kelly and her budget director will hit the road...
Governor: A.G. using ‘false urgency’ to build support for redistricting special session
Gov. Laura Kelly is accusing Attorney General Kris Kobach of pressuring lawmakers into calling a special session to draw new election boundaries for Congress...
Kobach says feds cutting food-assistance funds; governor’s top aide says that’s ‘misleading’
Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach and the governor's chief of staff are tangling over whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting off millions...
Howard promises immediate appeal if food-assistance funds withheld
Social services Secretary Laura Howard says she will immediately appeal any decision by the Trump administration to withhold millions of dollars needed to administer...
Kelly: Kansas not in imminent danger of losing food-assistance funds
Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday responded to a lawsuit trying to force her to turn over personal food-assistance information to the Trump administration, saying...
