Kansas, other states win a ruling striking down part of the U.S. health care law, but the state also continues preparing to follow those requirements anyway.

U.S. Supreme Court allows changes to narrow disparities if public good requires, according to a study commissioned by Kansas public policy group.

Kansas on Monday joined Utah and 18 other states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that would ban memorial roadside crosses erected to honor traffic victims.

Kansas Lottery Commission officials Thursday reextended application deadlines another three months, to July 21, for any developer who might want to run a state-owned casino in southeast Kansas.

Judge David Bruns has sat on the Third Judicial District in Shawnee County since 1999. Now he'll replace the seat vacated by Justice Nancy Caplinger-Moritz on the Kansas Court of Appeals.

The Supreme Court might have to shut down the state court system as many as 28 days if the current version of the House spending plan passes.

The Blue Ribbon Commission, tasked with reviewing the state's judicial system and coming up with ways to make it more efficient and better serve the public, will hold public meetings in various Kansas communities to gather public input.

The Blue Ribbon Commission will spend the next year coming up with ideas and strategies to make the Kansas Court System more efficient and make recommendations to the Supreme Court. In April and May, the Commission will hold community meetings to garner input from Kansans.

The newest appellate judge will be sworn in on Friday, but she could be the last one be appointed to the bench through the current method of judge selection.

For the first time, spectators will be permitted to observe the interviews of applicants who want to sit on the Kansas Court of Appeals this month.