Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has hired a new director to replace its longtime director, who is retiring this week. On Tuesday, the health department’s board announced that Jonathan Smith, who has lived in Lawrence since 2019, will take over as director starting July 26. Smith ...

One of the great joys for Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame member Danney Williams is playing the guitar. He was set to play in the band last fall at a local church dance when disaster struck. He was doing some work at the church, going up and down a ladder, but before he knew it, it had gone ...

For over a month, doctors at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Cancer Center have struggled to get their hands on enough chemotherapy drugs to treat their patients. First, their shipments of carboplatin — typically used to treat breast, ovarian and several other cancers — were delayed. They ...

Kansans have one last chance in the next week or so to request free at-home COVID-19 tests through a program supported in part by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The KDHE on Tuesday announced a change to the Project Access COVID Tests program, a partnership with The ...

Nate Penny is remembered by many in the Lawrence community as a beloved and hardworking friend. The son of Bill and Marlene Penny, Nate played football for Lawrence High School and the University of Kansas. He worked for his family’s business, Penny’s Concrete, for many years and coached ...

OLATHE — Gov. Laura Kelly and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids said Friday that 120,000 Kansans allowed to remain in Medicaid due to a three-year suspension of eligibility reviews during the pandemic were in jeopardy of automatically losing coverage by not applying for renewal. The hiatus in annual ...