Attorney General Derek Schmidt has faced President Joe Biden with an ultimatum: drop the proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector employees or face legal action.
Kansas schools are seeing a growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks, and school-aged children are getting infected more frequently than any other age group.
A document given to 13 NEWS by a viewer shows that Jefferson County North Schools will no longer require students to mask in school or on buses, which goes against federal guidelines.
Topeka Public Schools, KDHE, and the Shawnee County Health Department are trying to get more shots in arms, while toning their arms, at the Annual Family Fitness Fun Night.
KDHE's weekly update shows 63 active clusters in K-through-12 schools, resulting in 408 cases and one hospitalization. That’s up from 31 schools clusters with 179 cases a week ago.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is indicating that she’s wary of President Joe Biden’s mandate that companies with 100 or more employees require their workers to get vaccinated.
With about 45% of Kansans fully vaccinated, a recent study shows that the Sunflower State is in the top half of states that are most vaccinated against COVID-19.
The father of a football coach at a suburban Kansas City high school said he hopes his unvaccinated son’s death from COVID-19 will convince people that the disease “is real.”
Ten days following the start of a temporary mask mandate for students in its elementary schools, the Andover school board held a meeting Monday night, Sept. 13.
The Kansas COVID Workgroup for Kids (KCWK) met virtually Monday for the first time to discuss how to keep kids safe and in school as the pandemic continues.
As another surge of COVID-cases hit American hospitals, Kansas has found itself in the middle of the road for recovery ranking both better and worse than its four border states.
The building opposition to President Biden’s vaccination order comes as school boards and elected officials see pushback to mask requirements at the local level.
A lawyer who has filed lawsuits challenging mask mandates in two Kansas counties is demanding that a Kansas City-area school district revise its COVID-19 policies, arguing that they violate state and federal laws.
Those that are unvaccianted and have plans to travel to the countries of Martinique or Georgia will no longer be required to quarantine upon their return.
Sen. Marshall has released a plan to determine where exactly COVID-19 came from and how involved China was in the cover-up of the breakout of the virus.
The SPARK task force is setting parameters on how to allocate $50 million in federal coronavirus relief, directed toward helping hospitals recruit and retain nursing staff.
Classes have been canceled at Burlington High School until Tuesday, Sept. 14, as it sees a spike in illness-related absences following the Labor Day holiday weekend.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3.87 million Americans quit their jobs in June 2021, even as pandemic-induced financial uncertainty continued.
The Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment shows 31 active clusters in K-thru-12 schools this week, up 10 from last week. The clusters account for 179 cases.
A University of Kansas Architecture student that won more than $5,000 in an incentive program encouraging students to get the COVID-19 vaccination says the prize will allow him to keep his focus on school, not work.
University of Kansas Medical Center partners in Topeka, Lawrence and other Kansas cities will develop strategies to address health care workforce shortages throughout Kansas that have been exacerbated by COVID-19.
Residents of Kansas City, Missouri, and its surrounding county can be excused if they’re confused about whether to adhere to local mask mandates after Missouri’s attorney general offered “legal direction” indicating that many and perhaps most people can ignore them, especially students.
Lawsuits were filed Friday challenging a mask mandate for students and staff in elementary schools in Kansas’ most populous county and another mandate requiring everyone 5 and older in a small rural county to mask.
Coffey County Hospital, which does not have an ICU, posted on Facebook that, for the week of Aug. 22-28, they called an average 63 hospitals to find a place to transfer patients.
The State of Kansas’ seven-member “SPARK” committee approved up to $50 million dollars in funds that will go to help hospitals throughout the state retain front line workers.
France on Wednesday started administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine to people over 65 and those with underlying health conditions as the delta variant spreads in the country.
While those that work at the KU Health Systems Kansas City division are required to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 1, those that work at the St. Francis Campus in Topeka are not required to do so.
Senator Roger Marshall claims that evidence suggests China knew of a lab leak in Wuhan four months before the first COVID-19 cases were documented in the U.S.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has received over $1.7 million to help improve health conditions that contribute to severe illness and death as a result of COVID-19.
