The state of Kansas over the weekend received supplies for 7,000 new COVID-19 tests for four counties in the state that have meat-processing facilities, Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday.
Finney, Ford and Seward counties in southwest Kansas, and Lyon County in the east-central part of the state, are the four counties that will significantly increase testing capacities in the coming days.
Though the four counties ...
Fifty years ago today, Lawrence and the University of Kansas campus were the epicenter of nationwide unrest over civil rights and simmering tensions amid the country’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
In the days and weeks leading up to April 20, 1970, an unsettled feeling had already begun to take hold of the campus. The president of the KU Black Student Union told black students to “arm themselves,” ...
Story updated at 3:28 p.m. Thursday
State officials said Thursday that they are working around-the-clock to upgrade Kansas' decades-old unemployment system and allow more Kansans to apply for unemployment benefits.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began and many businesses closed under stay-at-home orders, Kansas has been inundated with claims seeking unemployment insurance, overwhelming the Department of Labor's ...
Higher education institutions across the United States are preparing to ask for around $73 billion in the next round of federal COVID-19 relief funding, the University of Kansas' leader said Thursday.
Chancellor Douglas Girod announced the figure in a virtual town hall update on KU's operations, saying colleges and universities need $47 billion directed to them — with a greater emphasis on the institutions. ...
Story updated at 5:23 p.m. Wednesday:
Former Kansas football coach David Beaty testified in a February deposition that he lost his shot at a coaching position at the University of Texas after KU Athletic Director Jeff Long intervened in the hiring process.
Beaty testified that he had a verbal agreement to accept the job at Texas, and that he was even given a Texas university identification number. But then, ...
Updated at 3 p.m. Wednesday
Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday extended Kansas' mandatory stay-at-home order until midnight on May 3 as confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the state and efforts are underway to increase the state's testing capacity.
Kansas, Kelly said, is currently expected to see a peak in confirmed cases of the virus between April 19, when the original stay-at-home order was set to ...
