Graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas say they are facing a mental health crisis that may cause many to stop teaching during the pandemic, while the university's provost said she's concerned the GTA's union is on the verge of illegally striking. The Graduate Teaching ...
Douglas County will see an increase in costs for its employee health care plan, but the county administrator says it's a better situation than what the county has experienced in the recent past. The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday approved a health care plan with a 6.9% increase in ...
The number of Douglas County residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 is 44, local health officials reported Wednesday. That’s an increase of one case from the previous total of 43, which had held steady since Saturday. Of those 44, 27 cases are believed to have been contracted ...
Without going into specifics on Wednesday, Gov. Laura Kelly announced metrics that health officials will use going forward to determine when the state can safely start to reopen. Those focal points center on Kansas’ testing capacity, hospital surge capacity, personal protective equipment and ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Wednesday: Thursday will mark 30 days since the local stay-at-home order went into effect, and Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health officials have called about 25 nonessential businesses that were still in operation. In response to inquiries from the public, the ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Someday, we will shop again, and developers are still hopeful that it will be at a new shopping center just south of the South Lawrence Trafficway and U.S. Highway 59 interchange. Another set of plans have been filed for the long-debated shopping center, and this time they have a major twist ...
An attorney for a local activist group is arguing that Douglas County’s use of a 1994 sales tax referendum to expand the county jail without a public vote would give the county the ability to debt-finance projects whenever it wants. William Skepnek, an attorney for Justice Matters, said in a ...
TOPEKA — Topeka’s mayor and city council members have voted unanimously to cut their own pay by 6% as they seek ways to deal with plummeting city tax revenues in the wake of measures to slow the COVID-19 outbreak. The City Council had been considering a measure that would have temporarily ...
Story updated at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — Kansas' top health official said Wednesday that the state is considering testing all prison inmates and residents of long-term care homes for the coronavirus, as such homes have accounted for more than half of the state's COVID-19-related deaths ...
A legal battle over the termination of former Kansas football coach David Beaty has cost Kansas Athletics and the University of Kansas upward of $350,000 in outside legal fees in the 13 months since Beaty sued the athletic department over his November 2018 firing. Records obtained by the ...
Story updated at 3:21 p.m. Wednesday A program offering children free meals for pickup on weekdays at Lawrence schools has been expanded to include the weekend. The Lawrence school district announced Wednesday that meals will now be available for pickup by children from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ...
After plans to construct the city’s first bike boulevard turned out more expensive than expected, city leaders have voted to construct a scaled-down version of the project that keeps it within budget. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Commissioner ...
Unbeknownst to the public, former Kansas football coach David Beaty issued a response in his personal capacity to the Notice of Allegations KU received from the NCAA in September 2019. In it, Beaty — who went 6-42 in four seasons as the Jayhawks' coach and was fired in November 2018 — ...
The number of Douglas County residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 remains at 43, local officials announced Tuesday. No new cases have been announced since Saturday. Of those 43, 27 cases are believed to have been contracted through travel, eight from local transmission and eight ...
A 33-year veteran of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is the fourth employee of the office to join the race to become its next leader. Doug Woods, the office’s operations division administrative captain, announced his candidacy for the sheriff position in a news release on Tuesday. He ...
City leaders have voted to spend more money to furnish three additional areas of the new police headquarters building. During its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously as part of its consent agenda to spend an extra $378,377 to add furniture and equipment to the areas ...
From workers on top of a roof to a 13-year-old with a big sign for his favorite nurse at LMH Health — his mom — Lawrence took a moment on Tuesday to stop and watch a flyover that was designed to thank health care workers and first responders during the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 19 ...
Departments at the University of Kansas must terminate the employment of student workers who are no longer actively working beginning May 17. When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out, KU committed to paying all employees through the crisis and determined it would pay student employees for an ...
Kansas state health officials have expanded the criteria to qualify for a COVID-19 test, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday. Previously, a person had to exhibit a fever, as well as two symptoms of the respiratory virus before a doctor could order a test. Now, Kelly said, a person only has to ...
