TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday that a team she appointed to help plan for the state’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will begin discussing this week how to spend $1.25…

Allen County commissioners held a special meeting Thursday afternoon to officially reopen the county. The meeting followed Gov. Laura Kelly’s decision to change the “Ad Astra: Plan to Reopen Kansas” from a state-wide mandate to…

CHANUTE — Chanute’s municipal swimming pool will remain closed in 2020. City commissioners voted unanimously this week to keep the Maring Aquatic Center closed through the summer. Commissioners cited staffing shortages, the Chanute Tribune reported.…

The next few weeks will prove vitally important to how fast or slow COVID-19 spreads throughout Kansas, the state’s top health official said Wednesday. Days after photos and videos from Lake of the Ozarks in…

(AP) — Construction on a national biosecurity lab in Manhattan has been halted after a worker tested positive for COVID-19, officials announced Wednesday. Work was stopped Tuesday on the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility when…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 2.1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week despite the gradual reopening of businesses around the country, bringing the running total since the coronavirus shutdowns took hold in mid-March…

TOPEKA — Kansas no longer will impose a statewide phased-in reopening plan, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday. In deciding to veto a bill that would have restricted her powers to respond to the coronavirus, she…

All that matters this week is everything. If a baseball season is to be saved, if MLB is, as it has often said, to be part of the healing of America, then this is the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange reopened for the first time in two months today, but its controlled chaos is more subdued. The floor, known worldwide for an…

MINNEAPOLIS — Mark Graves sat in his car in the parking lot at Phelps Park in south Minneapolis on a recent afternoon, looking out at an empty basketball court, one that normally would be bustling…