TOPEKA — Kansas’ Democratic governor is locked in a new partisan dispute with the Republican-controlled Legislature over her plan to largely paper over a massive budget shortfall tied to the coronavirus pandemic with short-term accounting moves. Republican legislative leaders argued Friday ...

WICHITA — Spirit AeroSystems is extending a temporary layoff of about 900 employees as it grapples with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX About 900 employees who were on a three-week furlough that was to end in early July will now be ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Many department chairs at the University of Kansas are pushing back against the school’s plan to have classroom instruction in the fall, saying they should have the option to teach online. On Monday, a letter signed by 38 department heads was emailed to Provost Barbara ...

Updated at 9:50 a.m. Friday A City of Lawrence employee has tested positive for COVID-19. The city became aware that one of its Municipal Services and Operations Department employees had tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to a city news release. The release states that the ...

An LMH Health employee tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, but had not worked a shift at the Lawrence hospital since June 15. LMH Health said in a Thursday press release that the employee was unknowingly exposed to COVID-19 outside the LMH Health facility after June 15 and, therefore, no ...

Updated 8:39 p.m. on Thursday The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will cut its employees' salaries and lay off some workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided a bridge for the community mental health center, cuts must be made ...

The City of Lawrence is reopening community feedback on the city’s strategic plan to see how racial justice movements and the COVID-19 pandemic have affected community priorities. The Lawrence City Commission will use the feedback to inform its strategic plan, which helps guide the ...

Updated at 3:44 p.m. Thursday Information detailing the location of COVID-19 outbreaks both in Douglas County and in the state of Kansas continues to be shielded from the public eye. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in recent days have ...

Updated at 5:15 p.m. Thursday Haskell Indian Nations University students will not return to campus in August. Haskell President Ronald Graham told the Journal-World Thursday that all classes would be held virtually for the fall semester. In March, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Haskell ...

TOPEKA — Kansas on Wednesday saw its largest jump in coronavirus cases in more than six weeks, an increase of more than 500 cases in two days. The state health department reported the spike two days after Gov. Laura Kelly urged local officials to postpone lifting their last restrictions on ...

Updated at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday Douglas County has reported 105 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, local officials said Wednesday — an increase of four cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 82 out of the 105 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas ...

Downtown Lawrence Inc. has decided to cancel the Annual Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale because of the coronavirus pandemic. DLI Executive Director Sally Zogry said in a news release that given health mandates and guidelines to stop the spread of the virus, it would be irresponsible to ...

The Lawrence Busker Festival, originally scheduled for Memorial Day weekend and then rescheduled to Labor Day weekend, has now been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Monday message on the Lawrence Busker Festival's Facebook page said that despite big plans for this year — the ...

An assisted living resident at Brandon Woods at Alvamar has tested positive for COVID-19. The case was discovered after the long-term care facility, located at 1501 Inverness Drive, completed "proactive community testing" last week, according to a statement from Brandon Woods emailed to the ...

Douglas County has reported 102 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, local officials said Monday — an increase of 11 cases since Friday. In Douglas County, 79 out of the 102 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in its daily ...

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is advising counties to delay moving into the next phase of reopening, citing data that shows COVID-19's spread in the state is trending upward for the first time in weeks. On Monday, when the state was originally slated to move into Phase Four under Kelly's ...

Administrators at the University of Kansas did not abide by KU’s longstanding system of collaborative decision-making when they announced last week that every employee making over $50,000 annually would face a scaled, six-month pay cut beginning in August, faculty leaders told the ...

Amid a pandemic that has slowed efforts to count Americans, more than a third of Kansas households haven’t yet responded to the U.S. Census. In some counties, especially in rural areas, less than half of the population has filled out the forms that help steer billions in federal dollars and ...

Story updated at 5:19 p.m. Monday: Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday announced the immediate resignation of Kansas Department of Labor Secretary Delia García after the department saw months of continued struggle in processing unemployment claims for those who lost jobs because of the COVID-19 ...

Asymptomatic individuals in Douglas County interested in finding out whether they have COVID-19 likely won’t get an answer anytime soon. Mass testing of asymptomatic individuals is not a priority right now for the health department, leaders said, despite their beliefs that most residents ...