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KC Council approves extension of K-12 mask mandate

KC Mayor Quinton Lucas introduced a proposal at Thursday’s council meeting, recommending a two-week extension be placed on the current mask mandate for schools. A majority vote approved the extension, which now requires all students, faculty, staff and visitors to… more

COVID hospitalizations fall below 1,000 threshold for first time in nearly one month

Tuesday reports from 25 of 27 reporting hospitals in the KC metro show hospitalizations have fallen below 1,000, a first since Jan. 4, 2022, according to the Mid-America Regional Council's COVID-19 Data Hub. With a positive trend increasing, however, area… more

Work Begins on $220 million Buck O’Neil Bridge project

Parts of Interstate will be closed through this fall for work on the Buck O'Neil bridge replacement project, with northbound I-35 closed between 12th Street to eastbound Interstate 70. This closure will last approximately 275 days, according to a release… more

In A Nutshell: Seeking Something Closer to Normal

During recent weeks we’ve witnessed more Americans speaking out against a wide array of nonsense and finally seeking more “common sense”.  Maybe that’s one reason the stock market has been so robust – foreseeing a long overdue return to sanity. … more

Kansas City Federal Reserve district holds gains, grows energy-sector activity in Q4

With oil prices on a steady increase throughout the year, energy-sector activity held its gains in the fourth-quarter of 2021, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says in its most recent assessment of activity in the 10th District. The… more

Area hospital executives say stresses may remain, even as case counts appear to be leveling off

The University of Kansas Hospital, with its mandate to serve not just the metro area but the entire state, has always been tasked with caring for some of the most acute health-care challenges, treating the sickest of the sick. That’s… more

Kansas No. 1 in new daily COVID-19 cases Tuesday

According to the New York Times’ latest report of U.S. cases, Kansas represents the U.S. state with the most new cases per 100,000 recorded Tuesday. The table is sorted by states with the most cases over the last seven days.… more

DeSoto Creates Massive TIF District to advance Sunflower site proposal

In what’s shaping up as one of the biggest land-development projects in the region’s history, the city of DeSoto has advanced a $1 billion-dollar proposal that would cover nearly 10 square miles of western Johnson County with industrial space, residential… more

Contact tracing to end in Kansas starting Feb. 1

The Kansas health department will be ending it’s COVID-19 contact tracing program at the, effective Feb. 1. According to the department, the decision was made due to an influx in cases and in the hopes of reducing the strain on… more

Omicron variant decelerating

Is Omicron on the way out? It may be too soon to celebrate the end of this latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the rolling seven-day daily average case count in the U.S. peaked within the past week, at… more