Baker University will welcome back students in August to its Baldwin City campus for the fall semester. Like other private and public universities in the state, Baker closed its classrooms and campus in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic and finished the spring semester with online ...
Updated at 5:32 p.m. Friday Douglas County will remain in Phase 3 of its reopening plan for an additional two weeks because of an uptick of COVID-19 cases in the county. Based on the county’s Smart and Safe Reopening Plan, the earliest the county would have moved into its phase-out plan ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Kansas Health Care System will open a new outpatient clinic on Monday. The clinic, at 4821 Quail Crest Place, is triple the size of the former Lawrence location, VA Eastern Kansas spokesman Joseph Burks said. The former location was 2200 Harvard ...
Updated at 7:47 p.m. Friday LMH Health has pressed “pause” on a controversial plan it announced earlier this week to replace the local physicians group that oversees the hospital’s emergency department with a large national firm. The hospital’s executive team announced Friday morning ...
Douglas County has reported 86 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic as of Thursday, local officials said, the same number of cases reported Wednesday. In Douglas County, 76 out of the 86 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public ...
Douglas County is under a hazardous weather outlook because of the possibility of thunderstorms Thursday afternoon through Sunday. Chad Omitt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said Douglas County could expect 1 to 3 inches of rain throughout the weekend, as ...
Updated story - June 19 — LMH Health ‘pressing pause’ on controversial decision related to emergency room doctors The company overseeing the care at Lawrence’s only emergency department is set to go from a Lawrence-based company to a large, national firm. LMH Health announced ...
Douglas County has reported 86 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, local officials said Wednesday — an increase of three cases since Tuesday. In Douglas County, 75 out of the 86 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in its ...
Sky Smeed and Ric Averill will take the stage Sunday for two drive-in concerts at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Smeed, a Lawrence-based Americana musician, will perform at 7:30 p.m. and Averill will perform a family friendly set of stories, songs and singalongs at 10 a.m. Smeed's show costs ...
Douglas County has reported 83 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic as of Tuesday, local officials said, an increase of one case since Monday. In Douglas County, 75 out of the 83 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said ...
Baldwin City and Eudora will have Fourth of July fireworks shows this year, but — because of the COVID-19 pandemic — without the other activities usually associated with the holiday. Sally Pennington, Eudora Parks and Recreation director, said a community fireworks show has been scheduled ...
Story updated at 5:14 p.m. Monday Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has announced the first COVID-19 outbreak in the county. Four individuals were infected at the same business, which the health department said it did not identify because of patient privacy restrictions. The situation ...
Close contact businesses such as tattoo parlors, nail salons and barber shops are seeing a return of their client bases, and owners say they believe the community is starting to feel more relaxed about getting out and about. Tracy Meisenheimer, of Nails by Tracy, 935 Iowa St., Suite 8, said ...
Malcolm Smith’s first exposure to old-time mountain music was at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. It was dance music, it was “hypnotic” and it ultimately became a lifelong love for Smith. Smith developed and expressed that love in the 35 years he spent in Lawrence, during which he ...
After nearly three months, the Territorial Capital Museum in Lecompton has reopened with a display that celebrates a local sports hero. The museum, 640 E. Woodson Ave. in Lecompton, reopened Wednesday after closing in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is now open from 10 a.m. to 4 ...
Douglas County has reported 79 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, local officials said Friday — an increase of one case since Thursday. In Douglas County, 72 out of the 79 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in its daily ...
Douglas County has reported 78 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic as of Thursday, local officials said, the same number as Wednesday. In Douglas County, 70 out of the 78 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in its ...
On a portion of the Kansas River bank that was once choked out by invasive vines, native wildflowers are now blooming and pawpaw trees are taking root. The postcard-like scene is a result of a two-year project to remove invasive species from a one-mile stretch of the Kansas River and replant ...
Shoppers at Lawrence's Checkers grocery store recently may have left not only with a sack full of food but with quite a story to tell. A video of a deer running through the grocery store at 2300 Louisiana St. was posted to Facebook this week and has garnered much attention, as well as a few ...
Douglas County has reported 78 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, local officials said Wednesday — an increase of four cases since Tuesday. In Douglas County, 69 out of the 78 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in its ...