BY CORIE LYNN As students were wheeling their belongings to their cars in carts and on dorm room chairs Monday afternoon, email notifications began lighting…
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Tribune News Service TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is issuing new mandates surrounding COVID-19, including travelers, close contacts of confirmed cases…
View More KDHE issues new mandates for quarantine, isolation of travelers, close contacts
By Michelle Cortez and Angelica LaVito Tribune News Service New evidence from Europe and the U.S. suggests younger adults aren’t as impervious to the novel…
View More Yes, younger people are falling seriously ill from COVID-19
Tribune News Service The emerging $1 trillion aid package intended to help weather the COVID-19 economic storm appears likely to deliver $1,000 to every U.S.…
View More Coronavirus stimulus plan could deliver $3K to family of four
By Jonathan Shorman and Nicole Asbury Tribune News Service TOPEKA — Kansas Republican lawmakers moved Wednesday to limit Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s emergency powers during…
View More Kansas lawmakers seek to bar Kelly from seizing ammunition, property during pandemic
By Laurence Darmiento Tribune News Service We’ve all seen the unsettling images of what happens when the economy goes haywire. Bread lines, farmers abandoning the…
View More Businesses are sheltering in place. How long can the economy survive that?
By Dion Lefler Tribune News Service Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has quietly signed a sweeping executive order freezing mortgage foreclosures and rent evictions in Kansas…
View More Gov. Kelly halts home, business evictions during coronavirus threat
By Tim Carpenter Tribune News Service TOPEKA — The Kansas House and Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday expanding by 10 weeks availability of unemployment benefits…
View More Fear of virus-driven economic crisis infects Kansas budget debate
By Jonathan Shorman Tribune News Service TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly ordered K-12 schools closed for the rest of the academic year Tuesday as…
View More Gov. Kelly orders K-12 schools closed for rest of academic year
By Sophie Quinton Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — Some Democratic state lawmakers, like their congressional counterparts, are redoubling their efforts to pass paid leave legislation,…
View More Coronavirus pandemic prompts lawmakers to push paid leave