How Kansas builds its budget During the summer and fall, state agencies work with the division of the budget, working through base budgets plus any additional funding requests agencies may have.

Kansas lawmakers inserted language in the state budget that would restrict what food benefit recipients can buy. Critics say ...

Kansas calculates pay raises for state employees based on how their salary compares to the market rate in both the private ...

Gov. Laura Kelly and bipartisan leaders of the Kansas Legislature voted to release $36.2 million to implement annual ...

Kansas collected 30% more taxes than expected in May, largely from individual income taxes that were expected to be impacted ...

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly signed the Republican-led Legislature's large budget bill after issuing dozens of line-item vetoes and recommending lawmaker revisit the blueprint before adjourning the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH) - The release of the Kansas governor’s budget shows how much she wants the state to spend next year. Governor Laura Kelly’s plan calls for limiting spending increases as ...

Every year in January, Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly submits a budget proposal – a spending blueprint for a $25 billion state government – to the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Under the state budget bill, Kansas' public universities would be barred from requiring employees or students to support or oppose diversity, equity and inclusion policies and from using DEI in ...

A leaked federal budget forced Kansas advocates for people with disabilities to consider potential funding losses.

A new study from the nonprofit Robert Dole and Edward Kennedy institutes argues for more robust, consistent funding of local ...