KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 33-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man on Monday was charged with three felonies for his alleged role in a daylong standoff at Arrowhead Stadium. Joshua D. Newton was charged in Jackson County Circuit Court with making a terrorist threat, armed criminal action and unlawful ...
Story updated at 6:43 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14: TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday that Kansas' SPARK Taskforce, which is tasked with overseeing economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, will advocate later this week for spending "a fair chunk" of federal CARES Act dollars on expanding ...
Climate change is at the root of this year’s extreme weather events, from the wild swings between flooding and drought in Kansas to larger hurricanes and some of the worst wildfires the West has seen. And the majority of Americans are starting to take notice, according to the latest survey ...
WICHITA — Several Wichita bars and nightclubs have been ignoring the city's 11 p.m. coronavirus curfew, with one owner saying he has to do it for his business to survive. City and county officials say the venues that have been flouting the curfew put in place by Sedgwick County health ...
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities across Kansas have been tasked with a difficult "balancing act" of trying to resume some semblance of normal educational activities while at the same time weighing significant public health concerns, the state's top health ...
For the first time in over a week, the University of Kansas on Friday released new data on the prevalence of COVID-19 on its campuses as part of the unveiling of a new dashboard with expanded statistical information about the respiratory virus. Since its last data release on Sept. 2, KU has ...
WICHITA — Several records for low temperatures and at least one for snow in Kansas have been broken this week as unseasonably cold weather moved across the region, the National Weather Service said. A large weather system over the Rockies this week pushed an unprecedented cold front into ...
Liberty, Mo. — Kansas will face a dramatic reduction in coronavirus-related services that would put residents’ lives at risk if a state council does not approve extending a disaster declaration, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday. The State Finance Council, which is dominated by ...
The University of Kansas won’t say whether meetings of a nine-member medical advisory team tasked with monitoring the school’s reopening process during the COVID-19 pandemic — and potentially making substantive decisions about KU’s operational status — are open to the public. And ...
Updated at 2:46 p.m. Wednesday The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday released for the first time a list of specific locations and case counts associated with outbreaks of COVID-19 across the state. Of the 177 active outbreaks the department is tracking, four currently ...
Kansas is set to receive $63 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to help people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly's office announced Tuesday. The money will be available only to those receiving at least $100 in unemployment benefits, and ...
Four high-profile Kansas Democrats gathered virtually Tuesday to discuss what they deemed a pressing need to expand the Sunflower State's access to Medicaid — a need they said was only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Laura Kelly; U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids; Kathleen Sebelius, who ...
Visitors to the sunflower field at Grinter Farms took photos and enjoyed the scenery, Monday, near Lawrence. The 26-acre field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws thousands of visitors during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers. Photos by Charlie Riedel/Associated ...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas on Monday dropped its lawsuit that accused a former lawyer for the state utilities regulating agency of filing a baseless, retaliatory complaint against two environmental activists. Last month, U.S. District Judge Holly ...
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Active coronavirus cases in the Kansas State University area spiked more than 400% since classes resumed in mid-August. Active Riley County, Kansas cases increased from 125 on Aug. 17 — the first day of classes — to 679 as of Friday, The Manhattan Mercury reported ...
Colleges and universities across the United States have been at the forefront of researching COVID-19 and how to treat it since before the pandemic took hold in March. At the University of Kansas, efforts are ongoing to find medical answers to fight the disease, but researchers are also ...
Many University of Kansas students are preparing to strike — not attend classes on Monday — and now that pending protest is enflaming already tense relations between KU administrators and the union that represents graduate teaching assistants. KU on Saturday accused the union that ...
O’Fallon, Mo. — More than 7,000 college-age people in Missouri have tested positive for the coronavirus since classes resumed in mid-August, fueling spikes in confirmed cases in the state’s college towns, Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday. Recent single-day positive test rates in some ...
Updated at 3:03 p.m. Friday OLATHE — Amid protests and lawsuits, two more large Kansas school districts are reversing course and allowing sports to proceed despite increases in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. The school board for the Olathe district, which is the state's second ...
TOPEKA — Four Kansas cities have submitted proposals for the new U.S. Space Command headquarters, the governor's office said Friday. Wichita, Derby, Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kan., responded to requests from the federal government with proposed development sites in their communities. ...