New poll shows that affordability, including child care costs, are a major concern for Kansans. But one early childhood advocate says candidates in Kansas aren’t talking enough about easing the burden ...

Kansas law requires voters to present some form of government-issued voter ID before casting their ballot. Credit: Jessica Pearce Kansas requires voters to provide a government-issued photo ID at the ...

Tish Smith Burnett is a grandmother, a western Kansas farm wife, a frail 55-year-old with a debilitating illness — and lately something of a small-town villain. It’s politics, she said. And how it’s ...

The Kansas Constitution and state statutes restrict voting to U.S. citizens at least 18 years old who live in the area they ...

James Moran works to provide shelter and resources for LGBTQ+ people, saying that the population has endured decades of discrimination. “Our community has a long history of pain right at the hands of ...

Kansas law requires paper ballots used with optical scanning equipment to be marked by election officials to verify their authenticity.

Fairmount sprang up in the late 1890s, with close ties to its college neighbor, now known as Wichita State University. Over a series of transitions, which included Fairmount becoming a largely Black ...

Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1932, when George McGill won a re-election bid. McGill entered the Senate through a special election in 1930. He lost his 1938 re-election ...

Kansas communities as varied as Clay Center, Salina, Great Bend and Caldwell have added murals to their cityscapes, carving out new identities, even getting a bankable jolt. The surge of murals has ...

Erica Schlender reveres this ground, homesteaded by her great-great-grandfather, where he put down roots that continue to anchor her. She thinks of the effort that each generation of her family poured ...