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Drew Adkins, the commissioner of behavioral health services for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, appears before the legislative

Evan Dean, associate director at the KU Center on Disabilities, presented findings to legislators on Oct. 22, 2024, from a study on Kansas' slow-moving

Two former educators who are vying for a Manhattan-area state Senate seat are drawing lines in the sand on religion and partisan politics ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

One in five Kansas children in 2022 experienced food insecurity, which is the “economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hunger is a byproduct of food insecurity.

Kansas’ child care providers view the state’s child care subsidy program as cumbersome and ineffective, according to a new survey, but they also see ways to fix the underused system.

A wide majority of Kansans support legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, but a group of legislators assigned to weigh medical marijuana legalization declined to push the issue in the 2025 session.

Kelly Rippel with Kansans for Hemp and the Planted Association of Kansas addresses the Legislature's special committee on medical marijuana on Oct. 28, 2024. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector)

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s PAC and the Kansas Republican Senatorial Committee have poured around a half-million dollars each into competitive legislative races across Kansas, campaign finance reports released this week show. The Republican House Campaign Committee has spent almost $1 million.

TOPEKA — All 105 Kansas counties saw food insecurity increase among children between 2021 and 2022, according to a new statewide report from a child advocacy group.

Before early voting poll locations closed at noon Monday in Kansas, the state’s top election official already predicted record-breaking voter turnout.