Legislature

Diagnosed with a brain tumor, Republican state Rep. Greg Lewis announced Monday morning he would leave the House because he can no longer serve...

Raney Gilliland is retiring next month as the director of Legislative Research after working 40 years for the department. Gilliland recently notified leading lawmakers of...

Funding for the arts gained momentum in the Legislature on Thursday when a House committee agreed to put more into the Kansas Creative Arts...

The three biggest cities in Kansas battled back against telecommunications companies Thursday, saying that franchise agreements do not slow down deployment of better and...

Telecommunication giants are asking Kansas lawmakers to bar cities from forcing them to sign wireless franchise agreements, a move the companies say will allow...

(Updated to include more details about the contracts; with more comments from lawmakers; comment from governor's spokeswoman; edits throughout) State revenue officials have hit a...

(Updated to reflect final passage; adds more comments from Denning, Hensley and Truth Caucus chairman) The Kansas Senate on Tuesday passed a bill directing $115 million...

A group of lawmakers, including the state's first LGBT legislators, on Monday introduced  bills adding sexual orientation and gender identity to state's antidiscrimination law. State...

(Updated to reflect report that Rose has resigned from the newspaper, more details from lawsuit and a link to an email from Rose to...

The Kansas House on Wednesday approved a set of new rules intended to give the public more ability to track bills as they move...