As Kansas emerges from tax season, tax collections for the current year are beating estimates by $175.9 million despite cutting taxes during the 2024 legislative session. The Department of Revenue ...

Republican state Sen. J.R. Claeys has accepted a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in President Donald Trump's ...

Not the easiest week at SSJ headquarters. Mrs. SSJ and I lost our dog, Bear, on Memorial Day. Ultimately, the poor girl's legs gave out on her and sent us in tears to the veterinary emergency room. We ...

Three Kansas women and two physicians are challenging the constitutionality of a nearly 50-year-old state law that bars women ...

President Donald Trump has appointed outgoing state Rep. Patrick Penn of Wichita to a position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A pair of transgender adolescents and their parents are challenging a new state law banning surgery and the use of puberty ...

Penn represents House District 85, but is stepping down on June 13 to take a job as the deputy undersecretary for Food and ...

The state ethics commission is facing almost $250,000 in attorney fees after losing a federal case over state campaign ...

Not your typical Sunday Reader, but here's a quick glance of the week that was with the significant stories we published in ...

Lt. Gov. David Toland had long been expected to emerge as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in Kansas after Gov. Laura Kelly's term ends. Dynamic personality. Deep connections with the business ...

Over the years, a special state incentive created to entice people to move to rural Kansas has been expanded over and over again. The incentive - a combination of income tax breaks and student loan ...

A former University of Kansas student employee has filed a federal lawsuit against the school for being dismissed after ...