The state Legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill restricting the rights of transgender athletes on Wednesday, one day after passing a bathroom ban.

Republican nominee for Kansas governor Derek Schmidt, the state’s longest-serving attorney general, has troubling ties to the fiscally disastrous governorship of Sam Brownback and faces a popular Democratic incumbent in November.

A 14-year-old Kansas student was punished by her school in January for saying she was a lesbian.

Kansas state Senate President Susan Wagle is taking aim at the House seat held by Democrat Sharice Davids.

Republicans in multiple states across the country are trying to override their governors’ social distancing orders — ignoring expert advice on how to stop the novel coronavirus.

Health care coverage is on hold as Republican legislators fight over an unrelated constitutional amendment to repeal abortion rights.

Virginia welcomes its first woman speaker of the House of Delegates the same week New York legislators pass a bill making it easier to vote, and Kansas worked to expand health care to 150,000 more residents.

Republicans in the Kansas legislature are the latest GOP group to strip power from duly elected Democratic governors.