Such ideas are the cocaine hippos of Kansas politics ... yet slippery bodies have twisted and distorted the state’s political landscape. Eradicating the creatures, in whatever ways possible ...

Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the assessment says one-fifth of Kansans have a substance use disorder. That jumps to one-third for Kansans ages 18 to 25. Many don’t seek ...

Topeka? Johnson County Dist. Atty. Paul Morrison on Tuesday shook the Kansas political landscape by announcing he would switch to the Democratic Party to run against Atty. Gen. Phill Kline ...

TOPEKA — Kansas State Department of Education commissioner Randy Watson has an unobstructed view of financial, political and social battles about how best to educate nearly 500,000 school ...

Rep. Wanda Brownlee Paige, a Kansas City Democrat who also serves on the KCK public school board, said the new standard would breach local control and promote a political message. “They don’t ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas on Tuesday shrunk what already was among the nation's shortest windows for voting by mail, arguing that problems with the U.S. Postal Service ...

BY TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector Advocates special summer school for youngest children to catch up to peers TOPEKA — Kansas ...