Story updated at 7:10 p.m. Thursday: Douglas County’s Unified Command team, which was formed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, has met for the final time before demobilizing, the county announced Thursday. In a social media post, the county noted that though Unified Command’s structure ...

Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s latest coronavirus data released Wednesday adds another two deaths to Douglas County’s tally. The two deaths were a woman between 75 and 84 years old and a man in the 85-and-older category. Along with another death reported in the health ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday that it has partnered with a public charity to offer free at-home COVID-19 tests directly to Kansans in vulnerable communities, and Douglas County is among the areas that are eligible. KDHE has partnered with The Rockefeller ...

In the wake of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to expand eligibility for coronavirus vaccine booster doses to children ages 5 to 11 earlier this week, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Friday that it will host a pair of vaccine clinics for that age group this ...

Douglas County moved into a less-severe level of community coronavirus transmission on Tuesday, but also added another death to its tally, according to the county's latest COVID statistics update. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s latest data showed that the county has verified its ...

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how ...