This summer, arrests of immigrants in the United States soared to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office.An unprecedented increase in cooperation between local and state la...

Kansas weather lived up to its tempestuous reputation Wednesday as the dregs of Hurricane Polo launched more than a dozen tornadoes throughout the state.

Scott Morgan, a convert to third-party politics in Kansas, embraces his secretary of state nomination by United Kansas Party as an opportunity for change.

The U.S. Senate adjourned Wednesday night and won’t return until Nov. 9 for the five-week lame-duck session, when party leaders will have to decide which bills they want to negotiate during what could...

DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...

Opinion from Stefani Langehennig: Imagine watching a political campaign video in which a candidate admits to taking a bribe. You recognize the face and voice. But the confession is entirely fabricated...

Tax-policy legacy of former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is drawn into fray of gubernatorial race between Cindy Holscher and Ty Masterson.

More than 30,000 fewer Kansans are receiving federal food assistance benefits, including more than 13,500 children, after the passage of federal cuts in 2025, and current beneficiaries must navigate a...

Created through President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law in 2025, the Education Freedom Tax Credit program allows individuals to claim a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit of up to $1,7...

Generation Z voters still skeptical of major parties and still divided, but are finding common ground on some issues as mid-term elections near

A Kansas Republican Party leader accused a Democrat’s campaign of tainting a congressional race and violating federal election law because of her ties to a nonprofit she co-founded.

Opinion from Mark McCormick: Black parents make expensive choices and answer impossible questions when it comes to educating their children. One such question, "In what ways will you sacrifice your ch...

Financial and demographic trends diminish enrollment at universities, community colleges and technical colleges coordinated by the Kansas Board of Regents.

A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting President Donald Trump's effort to keep election securi...

President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...

The bill-writing software for the Kansas Legislature that was supposed to be operational months before start of the 2026 legislative session in January remains ill-equipped for implementation.

Kansas Reflector is telling the personal stories of eight Leavenworth commuity members who gather volunteers, raise money and host meetings for the sake of those in detainment. They don’t share the sa...

Fort Hays State University, grappling with a $2.4 million state-ordered spending cut, will close the Sternberg Museum of Natural History.

Opinion by Bill Beachly: Cattle trucked to a massive feedlot are fed swill. No selective grazing among native plants, no exercise, no respite from the flies and other tormenters. Their weight swells a...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.

CNN, MS Now and Politico asked a federal judge to extend an order allowing them to access the White House after President Donald Trump tried to ban their reporters.

Kansas Court of Appeals finds state Department of Labor erroneously relied on federal law in case of eight roofers in Wichita denied overtime pay.

Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...

Kansas Reflector is telling the personal stories of eight Leavenworth commuity members who gather volunteers, raise money and host meetings for the sake of those in detainment. They don’t share the sa...

Opinion by Ben Palen: Farmers see a nation that is adrift, one that is “led” by a president aided and abetted by people who have no moral code. They see a nation that has lost the respect and the trus...

Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm e...

Lawyers for a U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former ...

The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.

The signs, text messages and mailers promise cash, quick sales and a seamless means of unloading unwanted homes. But advocates say the business of buying homes for cash can confuse vulnerable homeowne...

Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes said in the latest Kansaas Reflector podcast that the Kansas insurance commissioner is a regulator who protects consumers but also must be an advocate and use data t...

For opinion editor Clay Wirestone, whose new book is out this week, a lifelong fascination with commentary writing began as a child at Peter Pan Park in Emporia.

New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of provi...

Opinion by Max McCoy: Adam Hamilton has more in common with the largely forgotten evangelical populist William Jennings Bryan than George McGill, the last Kansas Demcorat to win a U.S. Senate race — i...

The 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey report focuses on five areas — diet, physical activity, sleep, digital behavior, and mental health and suicide risk — while largely leaving out national findings on...

Opinion by Robert Strong: The size of a party’s majority in Congress makes a difference. To see why, it’s worth looking back to the second half of the 19th century, when two dramatic midterm election ...

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach told the League of Women Voters of Leavenworth County to stop offering $5 gift cards to high school students registering to vote.

As physicians continue to navigate care for patients with complex pregnancies in states with abortion bans, a group of maternal-fetal medicine specialists has developed new guidelines to help provider...

Attorney General Kris Kobach revised his campaign finance report to account for donations exceeding Kansas limits, but critics are seeking a formal investigation.

Kansas’s top foster care official said the state should be “laser focused” on Wichita to improve a youth placement measure that has consistently fallen short of court-ordered standards.

Opinion by Eric Thomas: As unprecedented immigration enforcement continues this week in Kansas and nationwide, the masks worn by law enforcement create a looming, yet cowardly, specter.

Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, incl...

Kansas bank commissioner wants to spike unique bank charter held by a Texas-based company previously led by a scandal-plagued executive headed to prison.

Kansas politicians urged federal immigration enforcement officials to coordinate with local law enforcement following reports of indiscriminate stops on southwest Kansas streets, causing business dela...

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly early Thursday issued an order that temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s ban of three news organizations from the White House.

When a native-born American commits a murder, we generally understand the concept of individuality perfectly well. We ask about motive, rage, domestic conflict, ideology, drugs, mental illness, opport...

U.S. Senate Democrats believe they could pick up as many as six seats following this November’s midterm elections, despite Republicans having better fundraising numbers and break-even polling in sever...