A cluster of COVID-19 cases has been found at a rehabilitation center in Kansas City, Kan., where 17 residents and two staff members have tested positive for the virus. Six of those 17 residents at Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation have been hospitalized, said Dr. Allen Greiner, chief ...

Leavenworth County reported its first death from COVID-19 on Friday. The patient, a woman in her 50s, had been taken to a local hospital emergency room, according to a Leavenworth County Health Department news release. She had underlying health conditions and no history of travel. Including ...

All but a handful of City of Lawrence meetings have been canceled for the month of April because of health orders related to the coronavirus outbreak. The city announced in a news release that it had canceled all nonessential meetings of advisory boards and committees previously scheduled ...

The number of Douglas County residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began remains at 31, local health officials announced Friday. There are 21 cases believed to have been contracted through travel, five from local transmission and four from contact with someone ...

There are plenty of signs that the restaurant industry is hurting in Kansas, but less clear is that the state’s manufacturing sector is also getting hammered. In fact, the latest numbers from state officials suggest it was a more brutal week for the manufacturing sector than it was for even ...

The Lawrence Public Library may be closed, but that doesn’t mean that story times and other activities have to end. The library recently began providing online programming, such as story times for kids and book discussions. Executive Director Brad Allen recently told the Journal-World that ...

Gov. Laura Kelly announced Friday that she signed a new $10 billion long-range transportation bill into law in the hopes of stimulating the state economy once the COVID-19 pandemic passes. The law will create jobs through new transportation and infrastructure improvements, and Kelly said ...

Story updated at 4:37 p.m. Friday After thousands of University of Kansas students were told in late March to pack their bags and finish the academic year online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, questions immediately arose as to whether the state's flagship university would refund the costs for ...

KANSAS CITY, KAN. — More than 50 University of Kansas medical students are graduating early to participate in a program that will deploy them throughout the state to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The University of Kansas Medical Center said in a news release that the program will ...

Sixty homes in the Deerfield Cottages neighborhood received flyers Tuesday inviting them to participate in a thank-you event for Lawrence’s essential workers the following day. Organizer Karen Cochran hoped the event would build up the community in her neighborhood and help people feel less ...

Story updated at 6:55 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — Kansas could run out of personal protective equipment for medical personnel and others dealing directly with the coronavirus pandemic by the middle of next week, Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday, as the state saw its largest spike in the number of ...

Although school buildings are closed and Lawrence students are learning online from remote settings, Superintendent Anthony Lewis told the Lawrence school board that the school district is still working hard to provide an education to local children. “We want to make sure we are still able ...

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly strongly criticized the U.S. government Thursday as unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic and said her state hasn’t gotten needed supplies despite multiple requests approved since mid-March. The Democratic governor said Kansas has sought “hundreds of ...

The University of Kansas expects to suffer losses in the range of tens of millions of dollars because of the COVID-19 pandemic that forced its campuses to abruptly switch to online learning and sent all but 500 students home for the semester. Chancellor Douglas Girod made the grim prediction ...

Joe Spradlin’s hospital bed was recently moved to his living room. There, sunlight streams in from the sliding door, behind which visitors stand, chat and offer what could be their final goodbye. In early March, Spradlin, 90, of Lawrence, was admitted to in-home hospice care due to an ...

Local health officials announced Thursday that 31 Douglas County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, an increase of one from the previous day. There are 21 cases believed to have been contracted through travel, five from local transmission and four from ...

Kansas’ Department of Labor has brought on numerous staffers from other state departments and is using Amazon Web Services to help wade through a deluge of calls from residents seeking guidance on unemployment claims, Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday in her daily COVID-19 briefing. The ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government expects to begin making payments to millions of Americans under the new stimulus law in mid-April, but some people without direct deposit information may not get checks until mid-August or later, according to a memo obtained Thursday by The Associated ...

Want to see clips from Theatre Lawrence’s 2000 production of “Big River?" They're now online as part of Theatre Lawrence’s Distance Theatre blog. The blog posts clips from previous shows and highlights the theater's sponsors, other programs in the community and donation opportunities. ...

Story updated at 5:40 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — Kansas health officials faced questions Thursday over the state’s monitoring of GPS data gleaned from people’s cellphones about how residents have cut down on travel during the coronavirus pandemic. But Gov. Laura Kelly defended the state ...