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...

Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps.

Kansas USD 106 former school superintendent Jeff Jones has been charged with 19 felonies and misdemeanors, including multiple financial crimes and two felonies involving a minor.

Two Florida residents serving probation for felony crime of submitting fake petition signatures to help establish No Labels Kansas as a political party.

A Kansas legislator is demanding an investigation into a League of Women Voters chapter that gave gift cards to students who registered to vote.

Kansans have not elected a Democrat to a US Senate seat since 1932, and there’s a really simple reason for that. Kansas is a really Republican state.

Education experts and advocates on Tuesday urged Congress to repeal an incoming national school voucher program over concerns that it will divert critical funds away from public schools to private ins...

President Donald Trump faces a “big decision” to make a deal with Iran or “annihilate” the country, he told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

An independent third-party organization offers the 2025 annual assessment of Kansas' foster care system in light of a court-ordered settlement of a lawsuit.

Photos by Dan Donnert/K-State Extension.

America understands intentional harm, but it does not seem to matter until that harm begins to spill onto caste-privileged groups. Suddenly, the wider culture finds compassion. Many of our friends and...

Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.

Los votantes en Kansas no tendrán la oportunidad de asistir a dos debates programados entre el republicano Ty Masterson y la demócrata Cindy Holscher en la competencia por la gubernatura.

The fate of unreleased Epstein files is an issue in the 2nd District race between GOP incumbent Derek Schmidt and Democratic challenger Don Coover.