Kansas' top health official on Wednesday revealed new statistics that show the state has far to go in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said Kansas' percentage rate of positive COVID-19 tests was the sixth highest in the United States at 10.1% — well above the national average of 5.8%. The state is also seeing 108 new cases ...
Story updated at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday:
In its second release of data from initial COVID-19 testing, the University of Kansas announced Tuesday that 222 people in the university community have tested positive for the respiratory virus.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced the update in a campus message Tuesday afternoon and said that the 222 positive results were out of 19,452 total entry tests — a positive ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has again submitted the application of a Lawrence resident to the Kansas Court of Appeals, two months after the Kansas Senate rejected his nomination for a different open seat on the bench.
In June, members of the Kansas Senate rejected the appointment of Carl Folsom, an assistant federal public defender in Topeka and adjunct law professor at the University of Kansas, to serve on the ...
Two fraternities at the University of Kansas have received cease-and-desist orders from KU Chancellor Douglas Girod after images and videos circulated on social media over the past week of large groups gathered outside without masks or social distancing.
Girod announced the orders in a campus email just before 10 p.m. Sunday, and mere hours after the Journal-World reported that officials had not responded to ...
UPDATED STORY: KU issues cease-and-desist orders, 14-day public health bans to two fraternities seen partying ahead of fall semester
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As of Sunday evening, KU’s top administrators had not responded to a Friday letter from faculty and student leaders urgently asking for a two-week delay to the start of in-person classes, the Journal-World has learned.
Meanwhile, images of parties and other large ...
Leaders in the four governance organizations at the University of Kansas on Friday night, less than three days before the start of fall classes, sent an urgent request to KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer: Delay the start of physical classes by two weeks.
In an email obtained by the Journal-World, University Senate President Sanjay Mishra, Faculty Senate President Lua Yuille, Staff ...
