Douglas County’s coronavirus numbers are low right now, but LMH Health said Friday that it was on the lookout for a new subvariant of the virus known as BA.2 or "stealth omicron." The hospital's update said that no cases of BA.2 had been detected so far in Douglas County, but that the ...

Douglas County added 32 new COVID-19 cases from Monday to Wednesday, and the number of active cases in the community dropped by about 50 in that time, according to the latest statistics from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county now has 317 active cases of COVID-19, down from 375 ...

Story updated at 6:04 p.m. Wednesday: TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas are trying to prohibit state and local mask mandates during disease outbreaks, advancing such a ban Wednesday along with proposals aimed at discouraging local restrictions on businesses and public ...

With COVID cases declining, a new branch of Douglas County Unified Command is set to begin a pandemic recovery phase in the coming months, and that will include lessening the frequency of coronavirus data reporting and reworking Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s community transmission ...

Douglas County's COVID transmission levels have officially entered the “green” zone, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The latest COVID data from the health department posted Friday afternoon notes that the county’s average daily case count, based on a 14-day moving ...

Douglas County further clarified mask requirements at public county buildings via social media Thursday. While face masks will continue to be required at a few buildings due to federal regulations and other standards, other county buildings won’t require masks any longer. That change ...