A local effort to tag and track monarch butterflies on their migration to Mexico hasn't been able to hold its usual public events because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the insects' annual journey is continuing mostly as normal, the project's director says. Monarch Watch, a program housed on ...

When Lawrence schools went to online learning in March because of the coronavirus, it meant the end of Lawrence resident Erin Chappell’s substitute teaching job. Chappell was left searching for work when most businesses were closed because of health orders, and the back rent started piling ...

Douglas County's health department has altered its metrics and goals for its weekly “Smart and Safe” community scorecard — a change its leaders say is a better reflection of the current situation — but the new metrics also include less information than before. The new version of the ...

The University of Kansas' cumulative COVID-19 case total has risen by 12 since the university last released data on Tuesday — by far the lowest uptick since the university began regularly sharing data. KU has now confirmed 950 cases of the respiratory virus since its mass entry testing ...

Douglas County has reported 2,174 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, an increase of 25 cases since Thursday. The county has averaged about 16 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 16 ...

The bleachers inside David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium won’t look quite so empty at the KU football team’s next home game. After the Jayhawks played their Sept. 12 opener without any fans, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Friday the team’s Oct. 3 matchup with Oklahoma State will ...

TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas reported Friday that it had more than 1,300 new coronavirus cases over two days, and most of the biggest spikes over the past two weeks occurred in rural counties in the central and western parts of the state. The state Department of Health and Environment said Kansas ...

The Pac-12 is set to kickoff a seven-game football season Nov. 6 after it followed the Big Ten in overturning an August decision to punt on playing in the fall because of concerns about COVID-19. With the conference having secured daily COVID-19 testing for its athletes and been given the ...

Zach Zimmer’s roommates at Benedictine College had grown accustomed to seeing him stressed. But on the first Saturday in September, the college junior got them worried. He was running a temperature of 101.5. “We knew immediately at that moment,” Zimmer said, “that this could be ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have started pushing to give more of their colleagues a say in how the state manages protracted emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic after months of conflict between them and Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. A Republican-led ...

The University of Kansas will use federal funds from the CARES Act stimulus package — allocated by Gov. Laura Kelly's SPARK Taskforce — to establish a child care assistance fund for employees facing unexpected costs due to their children's school being moved again to online or hybrid ...

While COVID-19 numbers showed some improvement, guidance for area school districts remains in the yellow zone, and an elementary school has halted in-person classes after Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department officials asked it to do so after multiple staff member cases. Eudora Elementary ...

Douglas County has reported 2,135 cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, an increase of 17 cases since Tuesday. In Douglas County, 1,630 out of the 2,135 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The number of active cases also dropped ...

The City of Lawrence has been awarded about $1.5 million in federal coronavirus relief grants, helping to fund a utility bill assistance program, electronic air-cleaning systems, a campsite for homeless people and child care for working parents. The federal funding is part of the nearly $25 ...

Updated at 5:18 The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday revamped its practices for releasing the locations of active COVID-19 outbreaks across the state, narrowing the time frame required for active cases in an attempt to reduce confusion. The change, which came a week ...

Downtown Lawrence Inc. has decided to cancel its annual trick-or-treating event and community Halloween party because of the coronavirus pandemic and related health orders. DLI Executive Director Sally Zogry said in a news release Wednesday that holding the events would go against the current ...

Topeka — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s office blocked a Kansas legislative committee from obtaining a list of the state’s personal protective equipment suppliers, a Republican lawmakers told colleagues Tuesday. Sen. Dennis Pyle of Hiawatha released emails during a meeting of a ...

Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health is now conducting unannounced checks at bars, restaurants and entertainment venues to determine whether they are following certain COVID-19-related safety practices and closing at the required times, the health department said. On Friday, Lawrence-Douglas ...

Douglas County has reported 2,118 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 34 cases since Monday. The county has averaged about 19 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 19 new ...

The University of Kansas announced Tuesday that it has confirmed another 56 cases of COVID-19 since it last released data on Friday, bringing the university's cumulative case total to 938. In the most recent seven-day period for which data is available, Sept. 14-20, the KU community also ...