Tuesday night's election was the first time the newly drawn state legislative districts were in front of voters and the new maps allowed Democrats to end the GOP's supermajority, but the ...

Missouri senators have approved over $100 million in tornado relief for St. Louis and hundreds of millions of dollars of ...

A breakdown in negotiations over a tax cut and other spending measures in Wisconsin threatens to put the 2026 race for ...

Republicans have set an ambitious deadline of trying to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda through Congress by the ...

The Kansas City Council passed a resolution in 2023 that declared the city a transgender “safe haven,” in response to ...

The Senate’s last legislative day would turn out to be the next day. However, there were two issues that had been boiling all ...

Heavy rains caused flash flooding in the Wichita area of south-central Kansas, forcing firefighters to rescue dozens of ...

More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in one Midwest city contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the weekend took down a public list of cities and jurisdictions that the Trump administration labeled as “sanctuary” cities, after a ...

A Kansas lawmaker is pushing back on the state’s ban of ranked choice voting. The system allows voters to rank the candidates ...

In Topeka, the SPLC identified the Westboro Baptist Church as anti-LGBTQ extremists and the Prophecy Club as Christian ...