Thirty-one new COVID-19 cases have been reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health since Monday, bringing the cumulative case total in the county to 9,489, as of Wednesday. Like many communities in the region, Douglas County has seen an increase in new cases with the emergence of the ...

The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas, in what some fear could be a preview of the upcoming school year. In some cases the outbreaks have spread from the camp to the broader ...

Topeka — Kansas on Friday reported its biggest surge in COVID-19 cases in more than three months with the faster-spreading delta variant becoming a growing public health issue. Some of the biggest numbers of new cases per 1,000 residents over the previous two weeks were in counties ...

Douglas County has seen an increase in new COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, likely because of the emergence of the more contagious Delta variant, according to a news release Friday from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Among 53 new cases reported to LDCPH since July 1, 33 cases, or ...

Just a few weeks before COVID-19 vaccines became available, Teddi Van Kam got sick from the virus. The director of the Crawford County health department, in far southeast Kansas, was laid out for four weeks. As the pandemic became increasingly dire in her community, she was too sick to ...

TOPEKA — Health officials are investigating an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at a summer camp in Butler County, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Thursday. Thirteen cases were reported in the last two weeks and 23 cases have been reported overall at the AGK Ministries ...