The stark acknowledgment has drawn parallels to neighboring Kansas, which experienced a budget disaster roughly a decade ago.

Today, we’re taking a look at Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bold plan to eliminate the income tax in Missouri. Critics say an ill-fated tax experiment in Kansas should serve as a cautionary tale.

As state agencies present their 2027 budget requests to the Kansas legislature, lawmakers are finding that some departments ...

TOPEKA —The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is expected to cut $145 million from Kansas’ coffers beginning next year, state ...

Top Republican lawmakers don’t plan to let the redistricting software they purchased before the failed special session go to ...

The differences have been exacerbated by the government shutdown’s interruption of economic data, a particular challenge for ...

I'd rather be a tax-and-spend liberal than a no-tax-and-still spend conservative. That thought came to me not as a partisan jab, but as a genuine question about what kind of government actually works ...

Frozen and terminated grants, threatened federal funding cuts and scientists being forced to leave the country all contribute to the uncertainty scientific research institutions face in Kansas City ...

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich. By Jesse Drucker Jesse Drucker has ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced earlier this week that it will reduce air traffic by 10% at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports beginning Friday. The FAA is ...

WASHINGTON—Large companies are running into a problem as they try to claim some of the tax cuts that the Republican Congress passed this summer: They can’t escape the corporate tax increase that ...

In our Reality Check stories, Herald-Leader journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Kentucky didn’t ...