WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings. The White House ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online. The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to access an order form run by the ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Tuesday it would stop contact tracing for COVID-19 at the end of the month because of a lack of cooperation and a surge in new cases. Janet Stanek, the agency’s acting secretary, also told lawmakers during a Senate panel ...

Updated at 3:44 p.m. Monday OLATHE — Two large school districts in Kansas have canceled classes this week as COVID-19 cases surge among their staff and students. Olathe Public Schools and Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools canceled classes for Tuesday and Wednesday, the Kansas City Star ...

The Lawrence school district’s absence rate among students this winter is much higher than what the district has seen in the past around the same time frame. But because of the way the district collects data related to COVID-19, it’s not entirely clear that the increase is due solely to ...

Douglas County has seen 838 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, according to an update from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. That comes just days after the county recorded 916 cases between Monday and Wednesday. The county currently has 4,867 active cases of COVID-19 and is averaging ...