There is still around $270 million available for Kansans financially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the end of the eviction moratorium looming, those administering the funds are encouraging both tenants and landlords to seek aid to avoid evictions.
The Kansas Housing Resources Corporation was awarded two approximately $150 million installments of emergency rental assistance from federal pandemic ...
Following recent cases of COVID-19, the local homeless shelter has begun requiring its staff and guests to get vaccinated and has put a new process in place for quarantine.
As the Journal-World previously reported, a hotel operator expressed concern after the shelter quarantined guests in hotels following a positive case at the shelter earlier this month. At that time, Shelter Board President Thea Perry said ...
After presiding over an angry crowd opposing the county’s new mask requirement for kids, Douglas County Commission Chair Shannon Portillo said Thursday that she was “heartbroken” about some of the crowd’s rhetoric but hopeful that the vast majority of the community believed in and would follow the health order.
The County Commission meeting stretched late into the evening Wednesday — past the ...
Citing the need for denser neighborhoods, Lawrence city leaders expressed interest in moving forward with regulations that would prohibit new rural neighborhoods near the city’s boundaries until that land is ready to be added to the city. And they said that would also mean the city should be ready to make those expansions.
Lawrence city commissioners got their first look at the proposed subdivision ...
Amid four hours of public comment that included jeering and interruptions from a largely maskless crowd, Douglas County leaders have approved a health order that will require children who are not yet eligible for vaccination to wear a mask while indoors.
As part of their meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted unanimously to approve a health order requiring children ages 2 to 12 to wear masks ...
Douglas County leaders will soon consider a health order that would require children who are not yet eligible for vaccination to wear a mask while indoors.
As part of their meeting Wednesday, Douglas County commissioners will consider a health order requiring children ages 2 to 12 to wear masks while in indoor public spaces, with some exceptions. If approved by the commission, the order would begin at 12:01 ...
