Story updated at 1:37 p.m. Monday MISSION — Barbershops, hair salons, nail salons, tattoo parlors, tanning salons, gyms and fitness centers began to reopen Monday in parts of Kansas, even as the virus claimed another life at the state's largest prison. Janey McCarthy, the owner of ...
TOPEKA — Kansas’ education commissioner is cautiously optimistic that the state’s 500,000 public school students will be back in their classrooms when the fall semester begins. Commissioner Randy Watson concedes it’s difficult to predict the future as it relates to the coronavirus ...
If and when colleges are able to resume some sort of normal operations for the fall semester, Kansas’ top health official said Friday it likely wouldn't be “business as usual.” Dr. Lee Norman, the secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that he wouldn’t be ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly will update residents Friday on the latest information about the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The press briefing will be streamed live on Facebook and Journal-World readers will be able to watch the video here. Check back after the briefing for a story about ...
Residents of several northeast Kansas cities will be able to watch a military flyover Tuesday in honor of workers involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing will fly a KC-135 Stratotanker over 17 locations in Emporia, Manhattan, ...
Updated at 5:02 p.m. Thursday The state of Kansas will slow down its reopening process from Gov. Laura Kelly’s initial four-step plan announced in April, her office announced Thursday. Barber shops and hair and nail salons can now open Monday on a by-appointment basis, but many restrictions ...
MANHATTAN — A northeast Kansas mayor has suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat. Manhattan Mayor Usha Reddi said Thursday that responding to the coronavirus pandemic had become “the most important work of my life” and would continue to demand ...
Story updated at 3:47 p.m. Thursday BELLE PLAINE — A civil rights group on Thursday launched “The Clemency Project” to try to secure the release of Kansas prisoners whose medical conditions make them vulnerable to the coronavirus, following a stinging defeat in court. The American Civil ...
Story updated at 3:57 p.m. Thursday The expansion of the South Lawrence Trafficway is on a list of 40 projects that the Kansas Department of Transportation plans to pursue within the next 10 years. As part of a virtual news conference Thursday, Gov. Laura Kelly, KDOT Secretary Julie Lorenz ...
Story updated at 4:18 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — Roger Marshall represents western Kansas in a congressional district rich in GOP votes and donors that has given the state four U.S. senators over the past 50 years. He's armed with top-notch endorsements and the equivalent of gold in a GOP Senate ...
The Kansas State Finance Council has extended the state’s emergency disaster declaration — but for much less time than Gov. Laura Kelly had anticipated, highlighting the widening divide between the governor and the Legislature over the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...
A program that expands unemployment benefits to cover self-employed workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is now available in Kansas. Applications for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which allows self-employed workers, independent contractors, gig workers, religious ...
Updated story - Unemployment applications now available for self-employed Kansans affected by pandemic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly will update residents Wednesday on the latest information about the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The press briefing will be streamed live on Facebook and ...
Story updated at 2:26 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — A Kansas plant that makes sausage has shut down after employees tested positive for the coronavirus, and an outbreak that has infected hundreds at the state's largest prison has claimed the life of another worker. “This has been an extremely ...
A former Baldwin City Council member has filed to run for the Kansas House of Representatives and the seat that will be left vacant by outgoing Rep. Eileen Horn, D-Lawrence. A.J. Stevens, 49, told the Journal-World on Wednesday that he had always planned on running for the seat, but he ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas are joining a broader effort to shield doctors, hospitals and businesses from lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus, with business and medical groups pushing them to act quickly. The effort faces strong opposition from labor unions, trial lawyers ...
If colleges and universities in Kansas can host in-person classes in the fall, they should also be given protections against potential lawsuits over their reopening procedures, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said Tuesday. At a virtual town hall with members of the Lawrence chamber of commerce, ...
BELLE PLAINE — A Kansas court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a civil rights rights group seeking the immediate release of prisoners who have preexisting medical conditions that make them vulnerable to the new coronavirus. Leavenworth District Judge David King dismissed on Friday the class ...
Story updated at 3:36 p.m. Tuesday LANSING — A coronavirus outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people at the largest prison in Kansas has claimed the life of an employee — the first staff member at the facility to be killed by the virus, the state Corrections Department said ...
Updated at 1:19 p.m. Tuesday Most cities and counties across the state of Kansas will soon be able to apply for a new pool of federal grants designed to help communities at a local level recover from damages caused by COVID-19, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday. As part of the $2.2 ...