KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City will receive nearly $51 million to expand its streetcar from downtown to near the Country Club Plaza, federal officials announced Wednesday. The Federal Transit Administration said it has approved $50.8 million in Capital Investment Grants for the ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The head of the Kansas agency responsible for foster care in the state told lawmakers improvements have already been made in response to a scathing federal report and the settlement of class-action lawsuits over care foster children are receiving. Laura Howard, secretary ...
Story updated at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday: In its second release of data from initial COVID-19 testing, the University of Kansas announced Tuesday that 222 people in the university community have tested positive for the respiratory virus. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced the update in a campus ...
NEWTON — Amtrak riders in Kansas will encounter reduced service starting in October as part of the rail passenger service's nationwide cutback in routes because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Southwest Chief, which runs through Kansas from Chicago to Los Angeles, will reduce its service ...
PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Coyote hunters in Kansas will be able to use artificial light and thermal imaging equipment at night, beginning next year. The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commissioners voted last week to change regulations to allow the equipment. Matt Peek, a furbearer biologist ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Crews have pulled the body of an 11-year-old girl from the Kansas River, where she went missing over the weekend, police in Kansas City, Kansas, said. The body of Rebecca Van Sui Par was found Monday evening after a boater spotted a body along the river’s ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has again submitted the application of a Lawrence resident to the Kansas Court of Appeals, two months after the Kansas Senate rejected his nomination for a different open seat on the bench. In June, members of the Kansas Senate rejected the appointment of Carl Folsom, ...
Updated at 6:47 p.m. on Monday TOPEKA — Kansas no longer has any counties free of reported coronavirus cases, with the last two, sparsely populated ones confirming their first as local schools were preparing to reopen. The state Department of Health and Environment on Monday marked the ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Emergency crews from Kansas City, Kansas, continued over the weekend to search the Kansas River for an 11-year-old girl who went missing in its waters and is presumed to have drowned. Several boats and at least 10 firefighters searched the river Sunday, a day after ...
Two fraternities at the University of Kansas have received cease-and-desist orders from KU Chancellor Douglas Girod after images and videos circulated on social media over the past week of large groups gathered outside without masks or social distancing. Girod announced the orders in a campus ...
UPDATED STORY: KU issues cease-and-desist orders, 14-day public health bans to two fraternities seen partying ahead of fall semester • • • As of Sunday evening, KU’s top administrators had not responded to a Friday letter from faculty and student leaders urgently asking for a two-week ...
Wichita — Some students at public universities in Kansas have, or will yet get, the coronavirus. Football players training over the summer have tested positive. A frat house in Manhattan has an outbreak. And some dorm students elsewhere in the state have gone from just-unpacked to ...
Leaders in the four governance organizations at the University of Kansas on Friday night, less than three days before the start of fall classes, sent an urgent request to KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer: Delay the start of physical classes by two weeks. In an email ...
When the University of Kansas campus officially opens Monday for the start of the fall semester, it will do so with a low physical density, according to new guidance issued from the university's Pandemic Medical Advisory Team. In a broader release of the advisory team's decision-making ...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas secretary of state's office has offered each of the state's 105 counties up to two drop-off boxes where people can deposit their absentee ballots for the November election if they don't mail them in or want to risk voting in person because of the ...
TOPEKA — A state court judge has rejected a freshman Kansas congressman's request to remove the Topeka area's prosecutor from a criminal election fraud case against him. Attorneys for Republican Rep. Steve Watkins failed to show that District Attorney Mike Kagay in Watkins' home of Shawnee ...
Story updated at 5:15 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — Two large Kansas school districts moved classes online for middle and high-schoolers while public health officials in Topeka imposed stricter crowd size limits to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The Wichita school district, the state's biggest ...
Three days ahead of an unprecedented fall semester at the University of Kansas, a university spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World on Friday that KU would share "timely public health information" about outbreaks of COVID-19 that arise on campus, but a lot of the specifics of KU's plan ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs will prohibit the wearing of Native American headdresses, face paint and clothing at Arrowhead Stadium. They also are discussing the future of the iconic tomahawk chop as they address what many consider racist imagery associated with their ...
The first COVID-19 testing results for around 7,800 people returning to the University of Kansas campus show roughly 90 positive cases of the respiratory virus, the Journal-World learned Wednesday evening. Of those 90 positives, 87 came from students who have returned thus far — for a ...