Kelly: 150,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses coming to Kansas
Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that she expects the state to receive 150,000 doses to vaccinate Kansans against COVID-19 by the end of this...
Kansas counties with mask mandates grows to almost 60%
Almost 60% of Kansas counties have now adopted mask mandates as COVID-19 permeates the state and officials scramble to bring it under control.
The latest...
Nearly half of Kansas counties with mask mandates
Counties across Kansas have been gradually reversing course since last summer, increasingly adopting new mask mandates as COVID-19 spreads rampantly across the state and...
Kansas youth suicides climb again in 2018
The suicide rate for Kansas children climbed for a fourth consecutive year, with 35 Kansas youths dying by suicide in 2018, a new report...
State Medicaid director leaving for private sector
State Medicaid Director Adam Proffitt is leaving the state health department after a little more than two years at the agency.
Proffitt said his last...
Poling picked to lead Board of Healing Arts
With the state immersed in the coronavirus pandemic, the state Board of Healing Arts named a new executive director with scant public attention.
The board...
UPDATED: Does health care executive order go too far, not far enough?
(Updated to include comment from president of Kansas Advanced Practice Nurses Association)
Gov. Laura Kelly's executive order easing restrictions for health care workers to treat...
First COVID-19 cases reported at state hospital
State officials are reporting that three staffers and one resident at Parsons State Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19, the first cases confirmed at...
UPDATED: Sedgwick County recommends halting abortions
(Updated to include comments from Planned Parenthood and Kansans for Life)
The Sedgwick County Commission on Wednesday voted to urge the governor to stop abortion...
Hineman introduces alternative abortion amendment
Republican state Rep. Don Hineman on Tuesday morning introduced an alternative constitutional amendment on abortion that calls for putting the issue on the November...
