Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Laura Kelly

Kansas Governor Vetoes Tax Breaks For Anti-Abortion Centers

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly's recent decisions on tax breaks, diversity initiatives, anti-abortion centers, and elections measures.

Top News

Kansas governor vetoes proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly also vetoed a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a "vague" bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion.

WEKU

Kansas Gov. Kelly Vetoes Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors sparks clash with GOP lawmakers in a national debate on transgender rights.

Top News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Kansas Bill Criminalizing Coercive Abortion Heads To Governor's Desk

Kansas bill criminalizing coercive abortion aims to protect pregnant women from threats. Supporters urge Gov. Kelly to sign for safeguarding women's reprod...

Top News

Kansas Legislature Tackles Tax Cuts, Disability Services, And Immigration Issues

Kansas Legislature addressing tax cuts, disability services, immigration, and diversity issues before spring break.

Top News

Kansas Legislators Approve Abortion Reporting Bill Despite Democratic Opposition

Kansas Republicans pass bill requiring abortion providers to report patient reasons, facing potential veto by Gov. Laura Kelly.

Top News

Kansas Governor seeks to expand Medicaid with work requirements

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly (D) on December 14, 2023, proposed legislation to expand the state’s Medicaid program with work requirements for certain enrollees. The Cutting Healthcare Costs for All Kansans Act would require adults under 65 to provide employment verification to qualify for Medicaid.

Ballotpedia

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Kansas unveiled a new blue and gold license plate. People hated it and now it's back to square 1

The governor of Kansas is bowing to criticism of a new state license plate and halting production of a design that many people consider ugly and dull

The Independent UK

Kansas agency investigated girl's family 5 times before she was killed, a report shows

Kansas child welfare officials say they investigated the family of a 5-year-old Kansas girl five times during the 13 months before she was raped and killed

The Independent UK

Kansas to no longer change transgender people's birth certificates to reflect gender identities

Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities

The Independent UK

Kansas officials are no longer required to change trans people’s birth certificates, judge says

A federal judge says Kansas officials are no longer required to change transgender people’s birth certificates so the documents reflect their gender identities

The Independent UK

Kansas transgender people find Democratic allies in court bid to restore their right to alter IDs

Officials under Kansas's Democratic governor are seeking to have the state resume changing gender identification on driver’s licenses of transgender people

The Independent UK

Lawsuit over Kansas IDs would be a 'morass' if transgender people intervene, attorney general says

The Republican attorney general in Kansas is arguing that a legal morass would result if transgender Kansas residents are allowed to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list their sex assigned at birth on their driver's licenses

The Independent UK

Kansas' attorney general wants to keep trans people from intervening in his lawsuit over state IDs

The Republican attorney general in Kansas is working to keep transgender people from intervening of his state-court lawsuit against changing the sex listings on their state driver’s licenses

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Kansas attorney general sues to block trans Kansans from changing gender on driver’s licenses

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Friday to block Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration from allowing transgender Kansans to continue to change their gender marker on driver’s licenses after a new law took effect last week.

The Independent UK

Kansas attorney general sues to prevent transgender people from changing driver's licenses

The Republican attorney general in Kansas is asking a state court to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver's licenses

Tribune News Service

Fentanyl test strips, trans athlete ban and smoking age. New KS laws take effect Saturday

On Saturday Kansans will be able to legally access a key tool used to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths and they will no longer need to pay the state $100 for a license to carry a concealed firearm.

Tribune News Service

As fear grows among trans Kansans, Gov. Kelly defies Attorney General Kobach on gender marker changes on state IDs

TOPEKA, Kan. — Lane Rozin wakes up every day in fear.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Transgender Kansas residents can keep updating their documents despite a new law, governor says

Kansas’ Democratic governor says the state will keep allowing residents to change official documents to reflect their gender identities

The Independent UK

The number of Kansas residents changing their gender jumped 300% before a new law began

The number of people officially changing their gender in Kansas jumped more than 300% this year

Tribune News Service

Kansas GOP leader wants to ban nonpartisan elections. Republicans are divided about it

The Kansas Republican Party’s new chairman wants to eliminate nonpartisan elections for cities, counties and school boards, throwing his weight behind the concept after the GOP-controlled state Senate earlier this year rejected a similar idea.

The Independent UK

Kansas must undo gender changes for trans people in state records, attorney general says

The conservative Republican attorney general of Kansas says a new Kansas law requires the state to reverse any previous gender changes in its records for trans people’s birth certificates and driver’s licenses while also preventing such changes going forward

Tribune News Service

Attorney General Kobach contends that birth certificates, licenses of trans Kansans must use sex at birth

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said Monday that a new state law requires Kansas agencies over time to revert updated birth certificates and driver’s licenses issued to transgender residents back to their original forms ahead of its implementation this coming Saturday.

The Independent UK

Kansas' attorney general is moving to block trans people from changing their birth certificates

Kansas’ conservative Republican attorney general is moving to prevent transgender people born in the state from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities

The Independent UK

GOP leaders in Kansas back off threat to sue Democratic governor over education funding

Leaders of Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature have backed off a threat to sue the state’s Democratic governor for vetoing parts of a GOP education funding bill

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Revenue

20 stories

the University of Kansas

17 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.