Gov. Laura Kelly flexed a veto pen to reject bills Friday prohibiting gender-identity health care for transgender youth, introducing a vague crime of coercing someone to have an abortion and more, certain to trigger veto override attempts.
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Lawrence booksellers want to make it “perfectly clear” they support youths who are “perfectly queer.”
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The City of Lawrence is planning a major renovation of the Outdoor Aquatic Center, and city staff members want to hear ideas and thoughts from the community about what the updated pool should look like.
A $1.6 million federal appropriation will go toward launching a KU School of Law clinic dedicated to working on issues revolving around veterans.
”I want to offer a perspective on the proposed Kaw Valley industrial solar project that considers the deeper energy lifecycle issues. I am concerned that this project actually would lead us to waste more fossil energy resources and sacrifice good farmland in the process,” Byron Wiley writes in this letter to the Times.
A mail carrier was injured in a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon near the Jefferson County line, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
Attendance and behavior issues among students who transferred from the now-closed Pinckney and Broken Arrow elementary schools last year have improved, a district administrator told the school board Wednesday.
A pet died in a house fire Thursday evening in North Lawrence, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
Limited by the state’s constitutional protection of abortion, Kansas anti-abortion lawmakers have funneled more money into a program encouraging women to give birth, among other such focused measures sent to the governor.
Before her death, Rep. Gail Finney ruffled state and local police officials and prosecutors by publicly denouncing as unjust the state law allowing civil asset seizure. The Legislature last week voted unanimously in favor of a bill reforming the law.
