The Lawrence school district is planning on taking measures to help keep students safe while they participate in athletics and activities amid the coronavirus pandemic this fall. Some of those measures include limiting use of locker rooms and providing specific guidelines for each athletic ...

Around 10% of residents at Pioneer Ridge Health & Rehab have tested positive for COVID-19 after an initial round of testing, according to the company that manages the facility. Ali Ellis, the marketing director for Midwest Health, said that six out of the nearly 60 residents who live at ...

Updated at 6:27 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — A Republican leader in the Kansas Legislature on Monday accused Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's top public health administrator of using a misleading presentation to bolster their argument for requiring people to wear masks in public as a debate rages over ...

While Lawrence students won’t step into a classroom until at least October, some other Douglas County students could be receiving in-person education in just a few weeks. The school districts of Baldwin City, Eudora and Perry-Lecompton are all considering plans to begin their academic years ...

Douglas County reported 18 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 714. In Douglas County, 625 out of the 714 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The Douglas County Community Scorecard ...

The Lawrence school district may soon be able to furlough some staff who administration believes will not be needed during remote learning this fall. The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider giving the district’s administration the ability to furlough classified staff — a category ...

Story updated at 6:37 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7: Topeka — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly tested negative for the coronavirus Friday as a Republican legislative leader faced criticism from some Democrats for not telling colleagues until this week that he’d been infected and hospitalized before he, Kelly ...

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, ...

Covering health and medical expenses caused by the coronavirus pandemic accounts for a large portion of a proposed spending plan for Douglas County's nearly $25 million of federal aid. Almost half of the $24.9 million of funding from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ...

Douglas County has reported 696 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 10 cases since Wednesday. In Douglas County, 604 out of the 696 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Three patients at Lawrence’s hospital had ...

Video visitation is planned for the Douglas County Jail, according to a spokesperson for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. In-person visits have been suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Journal-World has reported; in lieu of that, inmates have been allowed two free 15-minute phone ...

The Douglas County Commission got its first look at how it could spend nearly $25 million of federal coronavirus aid, including $2.7 million for virus testing in the community, and county leaders are scheduling an extra meeting to give themselves more time to discuss the plan. County ...

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 ...

A fifth Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department’s Wednesday update about the virus. Previously, Douglas County announced that four people — a male resident in his 70s and three male residents in their 80s — had died from COVID-19 or with the ...

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 ...

Two residents at Pioneer Ridge Health & Rehab tested positive for COVID-19 this week, according to the company that manages the facility. The facility, located at 4851 Harvard Road, is a skilled nursing facility that has separate staff and residents from Pioneer Ridge's independent and ...

City leaders have agreed to keep rule changes in place through October that allow downtown businesses to use city sidewalks and parking spaces to operate outdoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. As part of their meeting Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners said they were supportive of the ...

Douglas County has reported 684 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of five cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 593 out of the 684 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Six patients at Lawrence’s hospital had ...

Douglas County will soon get its first look at how it could spend nearly $25 million of federal coronavirus aid. The County Commission on Wednesday will review a plan for its allotment of round-one funding from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as ...

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 ...