Kansas executive branch agencies don’t automatically screen ... about criminal histories further along the hiring process. State officials didn’t – and couldn’t – conduct a national ...

Opponents, including state employees ... arrangement for the 4 million employees under the executive branch, including about 40,000 in Kansas. "Heads of all departments and agencies in the ...

Kansas’ executive, legislative and judicial ... according to the Kansas judicial branch’s 2024 Annual Report. What was needed, the state said in the report, was nothing less than “rebuilding ...

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly assesses work of 2025 Kansas Legislature and weighty education, tax, budget and judicial reform ...

In a legislative session marked by its brevity, Kansas lawmakers managed to pass ... and the increasingly diminishing role of the executive branch in shaping final policy outcomes.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly wants the Republican-dominated committee tasked with drafting a new state funding formula for K-12 ...

In the 2025 state legislative session ... legislation without concern for the executive branch or the political minority. In recent years, the Kansas Legislature has used this power to bypass ...