The University of Kansas Hospital Authority at the end of July agreed on a contract with Lenexa-based Clinical Reference Laboratory to provide at least 35,000 COVID-19 tests for Kansas’ flagship university between August and December, records show.
But exactly how much KU has paid the company and how many samples the lab has tested during the course of the fall semester is unclear from the contract, which ...
After announcing in May that it was projecting a $120 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2021 because of losses from COVID-19, the University of Kansas on Friday announced that the deficit for this budget year is only $47.6 million — 60.3% less than the shortfall that was originally expected.
In a campus message Friday, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer announced that ...
Recent polling of national and statewide races in Kansas indicates that the Sunflower State, typically a Republican stronghold, will see closer races than it has in decades this Election Day, which is Nov. 3.
Republican President Donald Trump won Kansas by 21 percentage points in 2016, but a poll of 755 voters released Thursday from the New York Times and Siena College showed that the incumbent president is ...
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Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday ordered flags across Kansas to be flown at half-staff after the state passed another somber milestone in the continuing fight against COVID-19: 1,000 killed by the novel respiratory virus.
COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1,007 Kansans since the pandemic took hold in March, an increase of 31 deaths since the state Department of Health and Environment ...
One of the only contested legislative races in the Douglas County area — between incumbent Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, and Rep. Willie Dove, R-Bonner Springs, for the 3rd District Senate seat — has seen an influx of tens of thousands of fundraising dollars between the two candidates.
The incumbent Holland, though, outraised Dove by roughly $17,500 and ended the reporting period from July 22 to Oct. 24 ...
Over the past two weeks, the University of Kansas has confirmed only 30 new cases of COVID-19, a significant drop from the rates recorded earlier in the semester, data released Tuesday shows.
KU has confirmed 1,101 total cases of COVID-19 since the school year began in August, an increase of only three cases since data was last released on Friday and an increase of 30 cases in the last 14 days — or one ...
