Douglas County has added another COVID-19 death to its tally, but the county's active case count and moving average of new cases per day have continued to fall. In its update on Wednesday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health reported 570 active cases of COVID-19, a decrease of 206 cases from ...

Story updated at 9:28 p.m. Wednesday: Douglas County commissioners at their meeting Wednesday allowed the countywide mask mandate to expire at midnight, but that doesn't mean residents will be able to go maskless in county government buildings come Thursday. County Administrator Sarah ...

Douglas County’s coronavirus numbers remain on a relative downslide following the weekend. Since Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s last update Friday, the county’s daily case count, based on a 14-day moving average, has dropped from 38.3 to 27, and active cases have dropped by ...

Douglas County has officially entered the coronavirus transmission yellow zone, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s latest data. Yellow — as opposed to red, which the county has been in since the end of December — means the county’s daily case count, based on a 14-day ...

Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined the new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 is easing its ...

Douglas County has added 73 new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, bringing the total number of cases since March of 2020 to 25,051, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county has 1,164 active cases as of Wednesday afternoon, with seven inpatients hospitalized for COVID ...