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 ...

A student leader has filed a complaint with the Kansas attorney general alleging the University of Kansas is improperly keeping the public out of key meetings on how the campus will operate during the pandemic. Wes Cudney, leader of the student group Against Rising Tuition at KU, said he ...

Area businesses that have been hit hard by the pandemic will have a chance to get a share of $450,000 in grant money, beginning Wednesday. Downtown Lawrence Inc. will begin accepting applications for grants at noon on Sept. 23. The downtown organization has been chosen by county officials to ...

Douglas County has reported 2,084 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 88 cases since Friday. 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 ...

Kansas' challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic could get even worse depending on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Laura Kelly warned on Monday in a somewhat somber news conference. Just one week after the Nov. 3 election, the ...

Two staff members and an inmate at the Douglas County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a social media post by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office began testing all inmates and jail staff for the coronavirus in late August after two staff members ...

This past week, Apple and Google launched similar versions of a new function built into phone software that allows public health agencies to anonymously inform people if they were in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The two tech giants developed the technology ...

As the Lawrence school district on Friday was finishing up its second week of fully remote learning for the 2020-21 school year, Kendra Pittman could be seen in her home hustling between her two elementary-aged children, trying to make sure they were both doing their school assignments and ...

The University of Kansas on Friday unveiled a new COVID-19 forecasting tool and confirmed 41 new cases of the virus since it last released data on Tuesday, bringing the total case count at the university to 882. Chancellor Douglas Girod said the new two-week forecasting model projects what ...

Phillips County Retirement Center got a coronavirus testing machine this month from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But it will run out of the sample-collecting kits that came with the device on Monday, just one week after turning it on. Twenty miles away, the county’s ...

The health department will start conducting checks on local bars, restaurants and entertainment venues to ensure they are following public health orders, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Friday. A Sept. 4 health order requires that all establishments with a liquor license must ...

Completely by chance, local videographer Marc Havener released a short film — a celebration of Lawrence’s resilience and interconnectedness throughout the pandemic — on the city’s birthday. After the film was released Friday morning, a commenter pointed out the serendipity. “How ...

Through a new drive-thru clinic in the parking lot of Naismith Hall, the University of Kansas now has the ability to offer an additional 50 COVID-19 tests per day specifically for those showing symptoms of the respiratory virus. Through a partnership with the KU Health System, the university ...

City leaders have voted to approve an ordinance that gives Lawrence police more power to enforce local health orders put in place to deter the spread of COVID-19. As part of a special meeting Thursday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Mayor Jennifer Ananda opposing, to approve an ...

For a fourth straight week, Lawrence Douglas-County Public Health has kept its education guidance in its yellow tier, which calls for schools to use hybrid learning options and prohibit “high risk” sports such as soccer and football. But the key indicators that guide the health ...

Douglas County has reported 1,968 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 16 cases since Wednesday. The county has averaged about 18 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 18 ...