Story updated at 1:53 p.m. Friday Because of a recent spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Douglas County’s health officer has updated the local health order to force all restaurants and bars to close their premises by 10 p.m. and reduce the mass gathering limit to 10. Previously, ...

Lawrence police said Wednesday that they haven’t issued any citations for violations of local health orders, a power they were given under a new City ordinance passed in September. The Lawrence Police Department received the authority to ticket those violating health orders after images of ...

Douglas County schools will be able to continue using forms of in-person learning for at least another week as the average number of new COVID-19 cases began to drop this week. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Thursday that its guidance to schools would remain in the orange tier ...

Douglas County reported 4,104 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 69 cases since Wednesday. The county has averaged about 60 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 59.71 ...

Story updated at 2:31 p.m. Thursday NEW YORK (AP) — With the coronavirus surging out of control, the nation’s top public health agency pleaded with Americans on Thursday not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household. It was some of ...

A long-simmering, multimillion-dollar debate between LMH Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas came into full view Wednesday morning as the hospital questioned the future of its relationship with the area’s largest health insurance provider. Members of the nonprofit hospital’s board ...