Civil Rights

Kansas House passes bill suspending state law defining a speedy trial to keep judges from releasing accused murderers and rapists.

Kansas Senate committee takes carving knife to state emergency management law to more specifically limit a governor's authority in disasters.

TOPEKA — Former University of Kansas pole vaulter Callie Hicks offered assurances Tuesday that failure to impose a state law restricting transgender athletes to...

TOPEKA — The new Douglas County district attorney is under fire by local activists who say she campaigned on the pain of a man...

TOPEKA — Former Secretary of State Kris Kobach returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to seek backing for a bill allowing felons who have...

TOPEKA — A Kansas bill advanced favorably by the House committee overseeing elections aims to limit the authority of the governor to alter election...

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran renews quest to award Congressional Gold Medal to only Black, all-woman battalion to serve overseas in World War II.

Activists say the history of Black lynching in Kansas serves as a point of departure for consideration of modern forms of racial injustice.

Kansas near the both among states in comfirmed COVID-19 vaccination rates, but KDHE pledges to fix IT issues creating reporting lag.

New, distinctive Kansas license plates could raise awareness, and in some cases money, for military service veterans, cancer research, educators and a historically Black...