TOPEKA — Amid a global health crisis, the Republican-dominated Kansas Senate on Thursday voted along party lines against expanding Medicaid, delaying the hopes that the state would extend health care coverage to tens of thousands of Kansans until at least the next legislative session. Sen. ...
Story updated at 7:05 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — Kansas legislators convened Thursday for a single-day session on the coronavirus pandemic with Republican majorities determined to curb Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's power and the state's GOP attorney general suggesting she's been on “legally ...
Sitting alongside President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly thanked the Trump administration for its assistance in aspects of the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, Kelly thanked the president for sending a "SWAT team" from the ...
Story updated at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday: TOPEKA — Republican lawmakers in Kansas pushed Wednesday to greatly limit Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's power to keep businesses closed during the coronavirus pandemic and give the GOP-controlled Legislature's leaders the final say over how federal ...
Story updated at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — Kansas softened its quarantine guidelines for meatpacking plants after industry executives repeatedly pushed state officials to allow employees who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus to keep working, text messages and emails show. The ...
As Kansas begins reopening the state economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday that her administration had compiled a 20-person committee tasked with directing the state's efforts. That committee, called the Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas task force, ...
TOPEKA — A battle in Kansas between the Democratic governor and Republican-controlled Legislature over reopening the economy has grown increasingly bitter, clouded by election-year politics present and past. Gov. Laura Kelly has joined Democratic colleagues in other states including ...
After seeing improvements in the state’s COVID-19 data, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday that Kansas will soon move into a new phase of reopening. Beginning Friday, the state's limit on mass gatherings will increase to 15 people, and non-tribal casinos, theaters and bowling alleys can ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Republican congressman from Kansas who is also a doctor says he has been taking a malaria drug being touted by President Donald Trump as a way to protect against the coronavirus, despite warnings that it could have potentially fatal side effects. U.S. Rep. Roger ...
MISSION — Kansas lawmakers are divided on the importance of masks as they prepare to convene for the final day of the session, generating concerns that the gathering could fuel a coronavirus outbreak in the Legislature. Republican Rep. Don Hineman, a farmer from Dighton, said some lawmakers ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly will update residents Tuesday on the latest information about the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The press briefing will be streamed live on Facebook and Journal-World readers will be able to watch the video here. Check back after the briefing for a story about ...
The family of an 88-year-old man who died in a COVID-19 outbreak at a suburban Kansas City nursing home has sued. KCUR reports that the wrongful death suit that was filed Monday on behalf of the family of Gordan Grohman alleges that the staff at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village failed to ...
Kansas’ top health official on Monday encouraged residents to continue being vigilant in practicing sound public health measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19. Secretary of Health and Environment Lee Norman said virus cases linked to a gathering at Perry Lake in Jefferson County ...
Gov. Laura Kelly will fly to the nation's capital this week to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss Kansas' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kelly will visit Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, her office announced Sunday evening. The governor and Trump will discuss Kansas' phased ...
Story updated at 1:37 p.m. Monday MISSION — Barbershops, hair salons, nail salons, tattoo parlors, tanning salons, gyms and fitness centers began to reopen Monday in parts of Kansas, even as the virus claimed another life at the state's largest prison. Janey McCarthy, the owner of ...
TOPEKA — Kansas’ education commissioner is cautiously optimistic that the state’s 500,000 public school students will be back in their classrooms when the fall semester begins. Commissioner Randy Watson concedes it’s difficult to predict the future as it relates to the coronavirus ...
If and when colleges are able to resume some sort of normal operations for the fall semester, Kansas’ top health official said Friday it likely wouldn't be “business as usual.” Dr. Lee Norman, the secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that he wouldn’t be ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly will update residents Friday on the latest information about the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The press briefing will be streamed live on Facebook and Journal-World readers will be able to watch the video here. Check back after the briefing for a story about ...
Residents of several northeast Kansas cities will be able to watch a military flyover Tuesday in honor of workers involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing will fly a KC-135 Stratotanker over 17 locations in Emporia, Manhattan, ...
Updated at 5:02 p.m. Thursday The state of Kansas will slow down its reopening process from Gov. Laura Kelly’s initial four-step plan announced in April, her office announced Thursday. Barber shops and hair and nail salons can now open Monday on a by-appointment basis, but many restrictions ...