The University of Kansas on Wednesday announced that students and staff returning to campus would go through a mandated COVID-19 testing program, similar to plans announced by other universities across the country.
But documents obtained by the Journal-World show that just a day earlier, university leaders had decided testing wouldn’t be mandated for all, and that the university was on the verge of adopting ...
Story updated at 7:24 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5:
The University of Kansas will mandate that all students, staff and faculty members who are able to return to campus take a free saliva-based COVID-19 test, Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Wednesday.
The tests, which will be administered before the semester begins Aug. 24, will be given at drive-up testing sites at different locations. The testing will be ...
The 15 Kansas counties that followed through with Gov. Laura Kelly’s mask mandate are the only areas of the state actively reducing the spread of COVID-19, Kansas’ top health official said Wednesday.
Dr. Lee Norman, Kansas secretary of health and environment, presented the new data at his weekly COVID-19 news conference. Norman said that since Kelly’s order went into effect July 3, there has been no ...
Despite an unprecedented global health crisis, Douglas County appears to be on pace to far surpass any previous voter turnout for a primary election.
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew told the Journal-World Tuesday that projection is based on several factors, but most notably the county’s marked increase in requests to vote in advance and by mail.
The newspaper reported Monday that Douglas County received ...
The race for Kansas' 42nd District House seat in 2020 saw a rematch of a primary that happened just two years prior — this time, it seems, with a different result.
Incumbent Jim Karleskint, a Tonganoxie Republican, beat more conservative challenger Lance Neelly, a security and corrections worker, in 2018 and went on to win an easy general election. In 2020, Neelly, who again challenged Karleskint for the ...
Five candidates in Douglas County faced no opposition Tuesday evening, and four of them will also run unopposed in November.
Though running unopposed, all garnered significant numbers of votes in Tuesday's primary election.
Those candidates are:
-Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence, who received 3,360 votes Tuesday. Highberger is the only candidate who will face a general election challenger — though not ...
