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COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES: Overall positivity rate also drops to 6.1% in Missouri © Provided by KMBC Kansas City CORONAVIRUS LIVE UPDATES Kansas City metro area health officials are grappling with how to handle continuing case count increases after reopening businesses more than five months ago. What you need to know: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Wednesday the state has 292,836 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 4,724 deaths since the outbreak started. Overall the state said 12% of the population has been vaccinated. Kansas is now only updating COVID-...
Associated Press photo by: Associated Press Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks to reporters, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, during a Statehouse news conference in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna) WICHITA — Hospitality businesses that got loans through an emergency relief fund in Kansas at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer have to repay the money, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday. Funding provided through the Hospitality Industry Relief Emergency Fund has been converted from bridge loans to grants, the governor said. The program was originally envisioned as a working capital lo...
Wichita North High School will no longer be the Redskins. The school board voted 6-0 Monday night to drop the controversial mascot at the recommendation of a committee formed last summer. Board member Stan Reeser said that although the name was well-intentioned when the school was founded in 1929, "it’s clearly become a slang term with racial overtones and derogatory meaning." The school will now be referred to simply as Wichita North High School. Its logo — a shield, drum and feather — will remain the same. The mascot committee, led by the district's executive director of public affair...
Wichita Public Schools Board of Education member Mike Rodee has resigned from the board, effective immediately.