Just weeks after judges ordered Kansas to spend millions more on schools, the Legislature is crafting a plan to limit the courts’ role to decide education funding.

A panel of state judges ruled Friday that funding of Kansas schools doesn’t pass constitutional muster, suggesting a price tag that could approach $500 million more for the state.

The Kansas Department of Revenue is mailing brochures to 146,000 business owners about state income tax cuts enacted earlier this year, prompting a Democratic leader to criticize Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration for sending the mail only days …

Kansas legislative Democrats on Monday launched their own online survey on schools to counter a new website by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley and House Minority Leader Paul Davis said their site will …

Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration faced new criticism Thursday over its newly enacted state income tax reductions because state agencies have been directed to propose ways to trim their spending.

Each of Kansas’ major political factions want voters to blame someone else for this year’s bitter legislative wrangling over redrawn election districts, which ended up in federal court and could stick taxpayers with big legal bills.

A post-redistricting filing scramble by Kansas House candidates spawned legal challenges Thursday involving a gay rights group, the chamber’s majority leader and a Democratic hopeful who says the Republican secretary of state’s office lost his paperwork.

Several high-profile lawsuits on subjects ranging from political district boundaries to water rights and school funding have hit the Kansas courts, but policymakers say it’s mostly coincidence and not a sign of larger conflict in state government.

Kansas’ Republican attorney general will be allowed to participate in a redistricting lawsuit, three federal judges ruled Thursday, but only to weigh in on fees lawyers will seek after the case ends.

After 99 days of anger and anguish, Kansas lawmakers went home following a rare Sunday session, leaving the governor to sign a bill slashing taxes and letting judges draw new election districts.

The Kansas House’s Democratic leader is seeking permission to join in a federal lawsuit over the Legislature’s failure to approve political redistricting proposals.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said Friday the package of tax cuts that legislators have sent him isn’t the exact plan he wanted in order to stimulate the economy, but it is one that would create growth.

TOPEKA — A key House committee has approved a proposal to redraw the Senate’s districts to make them more friendly for conservatives who plan to run against Republican incumbents.

A Republican precinct committee member from Olathe filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court over the Kansas Legislature’s failure so far to redraw the state’s political boundaries.

TOPEKA | The top tourism official in Kansas sought Monday to quiet legislators’ concerns that an impasse over the budget will limit access or services at state parks this spring.

TOPEKA | If Kansas legislators are going to cut taxes this year, they’ll have to whittle down a long list of attractive proposals that have already been approved by the House or Senate. The work could prove daunting.

TOPEKA | Kansas officials were stunned and upset Monday to learn that President Barack Obama recommended no additional funding for construction of a new biosecurity lab, jeopardizing a high-visibility project that the state had seen as a powerful …

Cooper: Proposal intended to better address working class, poor

TOPEKA | Kansas policymakers are expected to learn in the coming days just how well they did at cutting government spending and collecting revenue in the last fiscal year.

Kansas’ new governor, Sam Brownback, either is doing a sensational job — or a lousy one.

It’s called the veto session. In reality, though, a lot more lawmaking remains.

TOPEKA | Kansas could lose up to $26 million in federal special education funds if a plan to cut spending is adopted by the state Legislature, according to lawmakers critical of the proposal.

TOPEKA | Kansas Gov.-elect Sam Brownback said he wanted his inaugural ball to raise money for charity, but he ran into an unexpected problem: state law won’t allow it.

TOPEKA | Sam Brownback may be well known to most Kansans, but no one in the statehouse knows quite what to expect as the U.S. senator prepares to take over the reins of state government.

BALDWIN CITY, KAN. | The white haze from several large barbecue smokers hangs in the air as state Sen. Tom Holland shakes the hands of thousands of people at last weekend’s Maple Leaf Festival.

Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson will lead a national nursing home trade organization when he leaves office in January, he announced Monday.

The primary election last week in Kansas didn’t significantly change the balance of power in the state House, but a bipartisan coalition that pushed a sales tax increase to passage faces another serious test in the November general …