The Latest Breaking News from Topeka

TOPEKA, Kan. — Transgender Kansas students will likely no longer permitted to compete in girls and women’s sports after the state House voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s third veto of the policy.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers voted Tuesday to send to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk a bill that would ban transgender and nonbinary people from single-sex spaces inconsistent with their sex at birth.

TOPEKA, Kan. — For the first time since Kansas voters upheld the state right to an abortion, Kansas lawmakers sent a bill on the topic to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Speaking on the Kansas Senate floor last week, Sen. Cindy Holscher told a story she had never shared publicly in her life — one that she had not even told her own parents.

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Senate approved a bill Tuesday aimed at ensuring parents can remove their child from classroom activities to which they object.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Supreme Court justices repeatedly pointed to last year’s overwhelming vote to uphold state-level abortion rights Monday, indicating they’re highly unlikely to back off their 2019 decision establishing the right to the procedure in the state.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Capitol Police were called into a Kansas Senate Committee Tuesday after a state senator said she felt threatened by a Kansan testifying on a bill.

A federal judge on Friday delayed ruling on a Topeka man’s request to release video in his Capitol riot case that he says shows undercover Metropolitan Police officers inciting protesters on Jan. 6.

TOPEKA, Kan., and JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau’s political career has been filled with firsts that often go unnoticed.

TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly in her State of State address on Tuesday night warned the Republican-controlled Legislature that she would oppose “irresponsible tax proposals” and education measures that pit “parents against teachers,” even as the Democratic governor seeks GOP support for her agenda.

The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training has revoked the law enforcement certification of Justin Herb, a former Topeka police officer, saying he was guilty of "exploiting or misusing the position as an officer to establish or attempt to establish a financial, social, sexual, romantic, physical, inmate or…