A bill that would require reporting and monitoring of more information on fertility treatments was before the Legislature on Thursday.

Three Johnson County school districts would lose $7 million in special education funding under legislation passed by the Kansas Senate on Thursday.

Top Democrats criticized an unsuccessful push by Kansas' Republican House speaker to delay pay cuts for legislative leaders' staff — including the speaker's wife — because the state law imposing them took effect Thursday.

A Kansas Senate committee expects to vote next week on a bill regulating campaigns to oust or retain members of the state's appellate courts.

Law professors on Thursday disagreed on the effect of a proposed state constitutional amendment that seeks to allow Kansans to reject any federal health care requirement to purchase insurance.

Two Kansas education groups and a school superintendent have urged a legislative committee to raise taxes.

WHITING, Kan. -- The Kansas Rural Center says it wants to help farmers in the state transition to organic production.

State transportation officials today released a study on providing Amtrak passenger rail service from Kansas to Fort Worth.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.