Douglas County's health officers are proposing a new health order that would keep the mask mandate in place, eliminate the mass-gathering limit and provide more flexibility about the occupancy rules for businesses and venues. The health order will go before the Douglas County Commission on ...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it will pause administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine following an announcement from national health organizations on Tuesday morning. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug ...
It was Mother Nature who called Louis and Phyllis Copt to the plot of land that would later hold their home. Phyllis remembers the day well. She described it with the grace one would expect of any 27-year English teacher. It was “one of those winter days with a beautiful snowfall,” and ...
Douglas County reported 9,029 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 30 cases since Thursday. In Douglas County, 8,814 out of the 9,029 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 215 cases are active. The health ...
Up to 100 Lawrence nursing home residents will have to find a new home following a surprise announcement that the longtime retirement facility Brandon Woods at Alvamar is closing its nursing home unit. Already, family members are worried about the scene that may play out as they begin ...
Lawrence’s Busker Festival will make a comeback this fall with spinning dinner plates, breakdancers and a puppeteer. Last year, the Busker Festival was rescheduled, only to ultimately be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but festival organizer Richard Renner said in a news release ...
Even though he and other volunteers Sunday had put a big dent in the amount of trash left behind at an abandoned homeless campsite deep in the timber north of Burcham Park, Greg Kipp was still amazed at the sheer volume of garbage that remained. “I’m shocked,’ he said. “I never thought ...
About an hour before the first Downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market of the year wrapped up, Roger Gipson had no products left to offer shoppers on a chilly, rainy Saturday morning. “We’re sold out,” he said as he stood under the Firefly Farm booth's awning to escape the light rain. He was ...
Five Star Senior Living Inc., which provides management for Brandon Woods at Alvamar, will close the skilled nursing units in the facilities it manages to concentrate on independent living and “active adult properties," the company announced Friday. Brandon Woods offers a skilled nursing ...
Douglas County Unified Command will offer three COVID-19 vaccination clinics per week in coming weeks with late afternoon and evening hours at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Registration for all clinics will be open to the public, and registration codes will be posted at ...
Freshman forward Jalen Wilson on Friday became the second key member of the Kansas men’s basketball team’s 2020-21 roster to announce his intentions to enter his name into the NBA draft pool. Like teammate Ochai Agbaji, who declared for the draft on Thursday, Wilson plans to retain his ...
The local health department and several community-based organizations will be offering an equity-focused vaccine clinic on Saturday, providing vaccines to people of color, who national data shows are less likely to have received a vaccine. People 18 and older who identify as black, indigenous ...
Federal relief will soon be available for music and other arts venues that have been economically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Small Business Administration officially opened the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant application portal Thursday afternoon, according to a news ...
Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 47,500 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center ...
After county health leaders alerted the public on Tuesday afternoon that there were nearly 2,000 appointments still available for a vaccine clinic on Wednesday, only about 1,000 people signed up to fill the spots. George Diepenbrock, spokesperson for Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, ...
Kansas junior Ochai Agbaji announced Thursday afternoon that he is entering his name into the NBA draft pool with the option to return to school for his senior season. “I will be keeping my NCAA eligibility throughout this process and look forward to hearing from NBA professionals on ways I ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by Les Miles, the former head football coach at ...
It was the dead of night and Ryan Ortiz was in the last stretch of his longest run to date: a 100-mile race on the Prairie Spirit Trail. The race started in Ottawa at 6 a.m. the day before. Ortiz had run south through small Kansas towns, reached the halfway point in Iola and turned north to ...
The Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market will open for its annual season on Saturday at 824 New Hampshire St. The popular market, open from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., will take place every Saturday morning through autumn, featuring fresh produce, flowers, baked goods and many other products. Because of ...
At his introduction Wednesday at the Lied Center, new University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff said that if he did not have to give a speech, he would be speechless. For the next 40 minutes, through his introductory remarks and a 25-minute question-and-answer session with the media, ...