Communities and organizations across the state of Kansas can now apply to receive additional funding for COVID-19 testing through the state Department of Health and Environment, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday.
KDHE late last week posted a request for proposals from state communities and organizations that are in need. The agency has $53 million to allocate toward increased testing, and the state should know by ...
Barbara Bichelmeyer, the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas, told members of a KU governing body Tuesday that KU would again mandate COVID-19 testing upon a return to campus for the spring 2021 semester.
Exactly what that required testing will look like is still up in the air due to how quickly technology around COVID-19 testing is evolving, Bichelmeyer told the Senate Executive ...
Just over three weeks before the general election, efforts to register as many voters as possible in Douglas County have been ongoing leading up to Kansas' voter registration deadline Tuesday — specifically among a group that while eligible to do so, traditionally doesn’t vote at a high rate: college students.
The University of Kansas adds thousands of eligible voters to the county’s voting population ...
An executive order issued by President Donald Trump near the end of September that seeks to end "divisive concepts" and stereotyping based on race and sex in all federally funded programs has caused a stir in recent days among higher education institutions.
The broadly written Sept. 22 "Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping" states that federal programs that through training or educational ...
Topeka mayor Michelle De La Isla and Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner will be facing off this year in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District — a seat that was decided by less than 1% of the vote in the 2018 midterms.
De La Isla, a Democrat, and LaTurner, a Republican, are vying for the U.S. House seat currently held by Republican Rep. Steve Watkins. Watkins, whom LaTurner unseated in the Republican primary in ...
One of the only contested races in the Douglas County area for the Kansas Legislature will pit longtime incumbent Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, against current Rep. Willie Dove, R-Bonner Springs, for the state’s 3rd District Senate seat.
Holland, a moderate Democrat who lost a 2010 bid to become the state’s governor, said that 2020 has been one of the most interesting election cycles he has been a part of, ...
